Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 96
The Frenchman did not quite dare to pull that flag down in the face of very earnest protests from both the English and American consuls.
Who acts: Frenchman · What happens: not dare, not pull down · To what, where: flag, face
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 (Frenchman), 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 Frenchman | det |
| 2 | Frenchman | Frenchman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dare | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dare | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 dare | advmod |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 dare | advmod |
| 6 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 pull | mark |
| 8 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 dare | xcomp |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 flag | det |
| 10 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pull | obj |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 pull | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 face | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 face | det |
| 14 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pull | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 protests | case |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 earnest | advmod |
| 17 | earnest | earn | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 protests | amod |
| 18 | protests | protest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 face | nmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 consuls | case |
| 20 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 25 consuls | cc:preconj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 consuls | det |
| 22 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 consuls | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 American | cc |
| 24 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 English | conj |
| 25 | consuls | consul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 protests | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dare | past · do-support | the Frenchman | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not pull down | to-infinitive | the Frenchman not said here | that flag | the face of earnest protests from the English consuls | down property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Theme |
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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