Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 83
“Thomas Square” was so named and set apart as a perpetual park near the heart of the city, in honour of this action of Admiral Thomas.
Who acts: Admiral Thomas · What happens: name, set apart, honour, act · To what, where: Thomas Square, honour, action
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 Thomas), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Square | punct |
| 2 | Thomas | Thomas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Square | compound |
| 3 | Square | Square | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 named | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Square | punct |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 named | aux:pass |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 named | advmod |
| 7 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 set | cc |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 named | conj |
| 10 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 9 set | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 park | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 park | det |
| 13 | perpetual | perpetual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 park | compound |
| 14 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl |
| 15 | near | near | ADP | _ | 17 heart | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 heart | det |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 park | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 city | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 city | det |
| 20 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heart | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 honour | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 honour | case |
| 23 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 named | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 action | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 action | det |
| 26 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 honour | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Thomas | case |
| 28 | Admiral | Admiral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Thomas | compound |
| 29 | Thomas | Thomas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 action | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past · passive | Thomas Square | honour of this action of Admiral Thomas | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set apart | participle | as a perpetual park near the heart of the city; apart property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | honour | this action of Admiral Thomas | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | act | Admiral Thomas | nom action «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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