Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 70
In the first part of July, about four months and a half after Lord Paulet’s seizure of the islands, Commodore Kearney, in the old U. S. frigate Constitution, entered Honolulu harbour.
Who acts: Lord · What happens: enter, seize · To what, where: Honolulu harbour, first part, islands
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 part | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 part | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 part | amod |
| 4 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 entered | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 July | case |
| 6 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 part | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 months | punct |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 four | advmod |
| 9 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 months | nummod |
| 10 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 part | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 half | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 half | det |
| 13 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 4 part | conj |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 seizure | case |
| 15 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 seizure | nmod:poss |
| 16 | Paulet | Paulet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Lord | flat |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Lord | case |
| 18 | seizure | seizure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 half | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 islands | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 islands | det |
| 21 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 seizure | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Commodore | punct |
| 23 | Commodore | Commodore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 seizure | nmod |
| 24 | Kearney | Kearney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Commodore | flat |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 frigate | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 frigate | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 frigate | det |
| 28 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 frigate | amod |
| 29 | U. | U. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 S. | compound |
| 30 | S. | S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 frigate | compound |
| 31 | frigate | frigate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 part | conj |
| 32 | Constitution | Constitution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 frigate | appos |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 part | punct |
| 34 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 35 | Honolulu | Honolulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 harbour | compound |
| 36 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 entered | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Honolulu harbour | the first part of July and four months and a half after Lord's seizure of the islands Commodore and the old S. frigate | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme harbour=Destination | ||||
| 2 | seize | Lord | the islands | nom seizure «state transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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