Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 73
However, in the new flag the colors of the bars were permanently reversed.
What happens: reverse · To what, where: colors, new flag
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: 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 14 reversed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 flag | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flag | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 flag | amod |
| 6 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reversed | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 colors | det |
| 8 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 reversed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bars | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bars | det |
| 11 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 colors | nmod |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 reversed | aux:pass |
| 13 | permanently | permanently | ADV | _ | 14 reversed | advmod |
| 14 | reversed | reverse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 reversed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reverse | past · passive | the colors of the bars | the new flag | however, permanently property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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