Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 81
This was saluted by the English troops with field pieces, then by the guns of Lord Paulet’s ship, whose yards were manned in homage to the restored sovereign.
Who acts: English troops · What happens: salute, man, restore · To what, where: This, yards, homage
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 (English troops), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 saluted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saluted | aux:pass |
| 3 | saluted | salute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 troops | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 troops | det |
| 6 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 troops | amod |
| 7 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 saluted | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 pieces | case |
| 9 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pieces | compound |
| 10 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 troops | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 guns | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 guns | advmod |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 guns | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 guns | det |
| 15 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 saluted | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 ship | case |
| 17 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 ship | nmod:poss |
| 18 | Paulet | Paulet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Lord | flat |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Lord | case |
| 20 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 guns | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 manned | punct |
| 22 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 23 yards | nmod:poss |
| 23 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 manned | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 manned | aux:pass |
| 25 | manned | man | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 guns | acl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 homage | case |
| 27 | homage | homage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 manned | obl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 sovereign | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sovereign | det |
| 30 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 sovereign | amod |
| 31 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 manned | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saluted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | salute | past · passive | the English troops with field pieces | This | by the guns of Lord's ship | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | man | past · passive | yards | homage | to the restored sovereign | tree rules | |||
| 3 | restore | participle | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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