Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 8
Probably this flag was the first “Union Jack” adopted by King James, 1603–1625, on the political union of England and Scotland.
Who acts: flag · What happens: be, adopt · To what, where: first Union Jack
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 (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 | Probably | probably | ADV | _ | 6 first | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 flag | det |
| 3 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 first | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 first | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 first | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 Jack | amod |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Jack | punct |
| 8 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Jack | compound |
| 9 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Jack | punct |
| 11 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Jack | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 James | case |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 James | compound |
| 14 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 adopted | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 1603 | punct |
| 16 | 1603 | 1603 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 Jack | list |
| 17 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 18 1625 | case |
| 18 | 1625 | 1625 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 1603 | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 union | punct |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 union | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 union | det |
| 22 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 union | amod |
| 23 | union | union | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Jack | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 England | case |
| 25 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 union | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Scotland | cc |
| 27 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 England | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Jack | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this flag | first, probably property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | adopt | participle | first Union Jack not said here | by King James | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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