Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 72
Lord Paulet had collected all the Hawaiian flags and destroyed them, but a new flag was hastily made and raised over the visitors, and a salute fired in its honour—to Lord Paulet’s helpless indignation.
Who acts: Lord, salute, flag · What happens: collect, destroy, make, raise, fire, honour · To what, where: Hawaiian flags, Chiefs, new flag, honour
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, salute, flag), 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 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 collected | nsubj |
| 2 | Paulet | Paulet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lord | flat |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 collected | aux |
| 4 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 flags | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flags | det |
| 7 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flags | amod |
| 8 | flags | flag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 collected | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 destroyed | cc |
| 10 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 collected | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 destroyed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 made | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 flag | det |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 flag | amod |
| 16 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | aux:pass |
| 18 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 19 made | advmod |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 collected | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 raised | cc |
| 21 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 made | conj |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 visitors | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 visitors | det |
| 24 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 raised | obl:agent |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fired | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 fired | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 salute | det |
| 28 | salute | salute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fired | nsubj |
| 29 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 collected | parataxis |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 honour | case |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 honour | nmod:poss |
| 32 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fired | obl |
| 33 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 indignation | punct |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 indignation | mark |
| 35 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 indignation | nmod:poss |
| 36 | Paulet | Paulet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Lord | flat |
| 37 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 Lord | case |
| 38 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 indignation | amod |
| 39 | indignation | indignation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 collected | parataxis |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | past · perfect | Lord | all Hawaiian flags | Lord's helpless indignation parataxis | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Theme | |||
| 2 | destroy | past | Lord not said here | Chiefs = chief | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | past · passive | a new flag | hastily property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 4 | raise | participle | the visitors obl:agent | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | fire | participle | a salute | flag's honour | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in honour=Destination | ||||
| 6 | honour | flag | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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