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title: The name “Jack” is said to have come from the red cross on the “jacq… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The name “Jack” is said to have come from the red cross on the “jacque”—the coat of mail or outer coat of the soldiers of England. 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 12

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The name “Jack” is said to have come from the red cross on the “jacque”—the coat of mail or outer coat of the soldiers of England.

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**What happens:** say, come · **To what, where:** name, red cross · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:pg66357:22:12
# text = The name “Jack” is said to have come from the red cross on the “jacque”—the coat of mail or outer coat of the soldiers of England.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	xcomp	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	jacque	jacque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	mail	mail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | the name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  | the red cross on the jacque |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from cross=Initial\_Location |

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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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