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title: April 1st the announcement was made in the morning papers that the U… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: April 1st the announcement was made in the morning papers that the United States flag would be lowered at 11 o’clock, and the Hawaiian flag restored as the emblem of the Provisional Government. Who acts: April, Hawaiian flag. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawai
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 134

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April 1st the announcement was made in the morning papers that the United States flag would be lowered at 11 o’clock, and the Hawaiian flag restored as the emblem of the Provisional Government.

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**Who acts:** April, Hawaiian flag · **What happens:** 1st, make, lower, restore · **To what, where:** announcement, morning papers, States flag, 11 o’clock

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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 (April, Hawaiian flag), 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:pg66357:22:134
# text = April 1st the announcement was made in the morning papers that the United States flag would be lowered at 11 o’clock, and the Hawaiian flag restored as the emblem of the Provisional Government.
1	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	1st	1st	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	announcement	announcement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	papers	paper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	compound	_	_
15	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	lowered	lower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	restored	restore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	emblem	emblem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Provisional	provisional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **1st** | past | April |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive |  | the announcement |  | the morning papers |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **lower** | would · passive |  | the States flag |  | 11 o’clock |  | the morning papers *obj* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme that=Destination |
| 4 | **restore** | participle | the Hawaiian flag |  |  |  |  | as the emblem of the Provisional Government | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |

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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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