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title: The second Union Jack was the second flag to float authoritatively o… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The second Union Jack was the second flag to float authoritatively over the Hawaiian Islands. Who acts: second Union Jack. 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 13

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The second Union Jack was the second flag to float authoritatively over the Hawaiian Islands.

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**Who acts:** second Union Jack · **What happens:** be, float · **To what, where:** second flag, Hawaiian Islands

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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 (second Union Jack), 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:pg66357:22:13
# text = The second Union Jack was the second flag to float authoritatively over the Hawaiian Islands.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
3	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	float	float	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	authoritatively	authoritatively	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the second Union Jack | the second flag |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **float** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the Hawaiian Islands |  | authoritatively *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over island=Trajectory |

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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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