Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 92
In 1849 Admiral Tromelin sailed into Honolulu harbour and made some emphatic demands, alleging that the king had unlawfully fined a French ship.
Who acts: Admiral · What happens: sail, make, allege, fine · To what, where: 1849, emphatic demands, king
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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1849 | case |
| 2 | 1849 | 1849 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 sailed | obl |
| 3 | Admiral | Admiral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sailed | nsubj |
| 4 | Tromelin | Tromelin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Admiral | flat |
| 5 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 harbour | case |
| 7 | Honolulu | Honolulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 harbour | compound |
| 8 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sailed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sailed | conj |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 demands | det |
| 12 | emphatic | emphatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 demands | amod |
| 13 | demands | demand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 made | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 alleging | punct |
| 15 | alleging | allege | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 made | advcl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 fined | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fined | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fined | aux |
| 20 | unlawfully | unlawfully | ADV | _ | 21 fined | advmod |
| 21 | fined | fine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 alleging | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 ship | det |
| 23 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ship | amod |
| 24 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fined | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | Admiral | 1849 | into Honolulu harbour | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into harbour=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | make | past | Admiral not said here | some emphatic demands | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset demand=Product | ||||
| 3 | allege speech: other | gerund | Admiral not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fine | past · perfect · passive | the king | a French ship obj; unlawfully property | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Recipient ship=Asset |
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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