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title: This continued until February 1, 1893, when negotiations had progres… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: This continued until February 1, 1893, when negotiations had progressed so far that United States Minister Stevens felt safe in raising the Stars and Stripes over the government buildings and declaring a protectorate. Who acts: This, negotiations, Stevens. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends»
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 126

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This continued until February 1, 1893, when negotiations had progressed so far that United States Minister Stevens felt safe in raising the Stars and Stripes over the government buildings and declaring a protectorate.

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**Who acts:** This, negotiations, Stevens · **What happens:** continue, progress, feel, raise, declare · **To what, where:** Stars, government buildings, protectorate

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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 (This, negotiations, Stevens), 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:pg66357:22:126
# text = This continued until February 1, 1893, when negotiations had progressed so far that United States Minister Stevens felt safe in raising the Stars and Stripes over the government buildings and declaring a protectorate.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	until	until	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	1893	1893	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	negotiations	negotiation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	progressed	progress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	compound	_	_
18	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:desc	_	_
19	Stevens	Stevens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
21	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	raising	raise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	Stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	declaring	declare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	protectorate	protectorate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | This |  |  |  | february |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **progress** | past · perfect | negotiations |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **feel** | past | Stevens  States Minister |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **raise** | gerund | Stevens  States Minister *not said here* | the Stars and Stripes |  | the government buildings |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent star=Theme over building=Destination |
| 5 | **declare** *speech: other* | gerund | Stevens  States Minister *not said here* | a protectorate |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protectorate=Attribute |

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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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