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title: Sometimes it floated proudly over fort and palace, while salutes wer… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes it floated proudly over fort and palace, while salutes were fired from men-of-war entering the harbour. Who acts: government, war. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 104

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Sometimes it floated proudly over fort and palace, while salutes were fired from men-of-war entering the harbour.

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**Who acts:** government, war · **What happens:** float, fire, enter · **To what, where:** fort, salutes, harbour

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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 (government, war), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:22:104
# text = Sometimes it floated proudly over fort and palace, while salutes were fired from men-of-war entering the harbour.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	floated	float	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fort	fort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	salutes	salute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	fired	fire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | past | government |  |  | fort and palace |  | proudly, sometimes *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over fort=Trajectory |
| 2 | **fire** | past · passive |  | salutes |  |  |  | from men of war | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from man=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **enter** | gerund | war *not said here* | the harbour |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme harbour=Destination |

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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.

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**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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