Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 77
On Monday morning, July 31, 1843, the admiral issued a proclamation restoring the islands to their king, and incidentally mentioning in high terms the work of the American missionaries.
Who acts: admiral, proclamation, American missionaries · What happens: issue, restore, mention, work · To what, where: proclamation, islands, king, high terms
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 (admiral, proclamation, American missionaries), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | compound |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 issued | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 31 | punct |
| 5 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 31 | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | 31 | 31 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 morning | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 1843 | punct |
| 8 | 1843 | 1843 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 31 | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 admiral | det |
| 11 | admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 issued | nsubj |
| 12 | issued | issue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 proclamation | det |
| 14 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 issued | obj |
| 15 | restoring | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 proclamation | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 islands | det |
| 17 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 restoring | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 king | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 king | nmod:poss |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 restoring | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 mentioning | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 mentioning | cc |
| 23 | incidentally | incidentally | ADV | _ | 24 mentioning | advmod |
| 24 | mentioning | mention | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 issued | advcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 terms | case |
| 26 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 terms | amod |
| 27 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 mentioning | obl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 work | det |
| 29 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 terms | nmod:unmarked |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 missionaries | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 missionaries | det |
| 32 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 missionaries | amod |
| 33 | missionaries | missionary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 work | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 issued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | issue | past | the admiral | a proclamation | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location proclamation=Theme | |||
| 2 | restore | gerund | a proclamation not said here | the islands | Islands's king | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent island=Theme to king=Recipient | |||
| 3 | mention speech: other | gerund | the admiral not said here | high terms the work of the American missionaries | incidentally property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | work | the American missionaries | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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