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title: Sometimes it hung at half mast over the palace while the body of som… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes it hung at half mast over the palace while the body of some member of the royal family or some one of high chief blood lay in state. Who acts: government, body. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 105

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Sometimes it hung at half mast over the palace while the body of some member of the royal family or some one of high chief blood lay in state.

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**Who acts:** government, body · **What happens:** hang, lay · **To what, where:** half mast, state

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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, body), 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:pg66357:22:105
# text = Sometimes it hung at half mast over the palace while the body of some member of the royal family or some one of high chief blood lay in state.
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	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	half	half	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	6	amod	_	_
6	mast	mast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past | government |  |  | half mast |  | over the palace; sometimes *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at mast=Location |
| 2 | **lay** | present | the body of some member of the royal family or some one of high chief blood |  |  | state |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in state=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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