Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 95
The king, however, had withdrawn his troops, leaving an empty fort with the Hawaiian flag flying from its staff.
Who acts: king, Hawaiian flag · What happens: withdraw, leave, fly · To what, where: troops, empty fort, staff
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 (king, Hawaiian 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 withdrawn | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 king | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 withdrawn | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 withdrawn | aux |
| 7 | withdrawn | withdraw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 troops | nmod:poss |
| 9 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 withdrawn | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 leaving | punct |
| 11 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 withdrawn | advcl |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fort | det |
| 13 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fort | amod |
| 14 | fort | fort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leaving | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 flag | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 flag | det |
| 17 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 flag | amod |
| 18 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leaving | obl |
| 19 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 flag | acl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 staff | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 staff | nmod:poss |
| 22 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flying | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 withdrawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | withdraw | past · perfect | the king | king's troops | however property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troops=Theme | |||
| 2 | leave | gerund | the king not said here | a empty fort | with the Hawaiian flag | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent fort=Recipient with flag=Theme | |||
| 3 | fly | gerund | the Hawaiian flag not said here | fort's staff | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from staff=Trajectory |
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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