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title: For the brief space of almost two months the Stars and Stripes had f… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: For the brief space of almost two months the Stars and Stripes had floated over Hawaii. 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 135

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For the brief space of almost two months the Stars and Stripes had floated over Hawaii.

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**What happens:** float · **To what, where:** Stars, Hawaii

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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:pg66357:22:135
# text = For the brief space of almost two months the Stars and Stripes had floated over Hawaii.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	brief	brief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	floated	float	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Stars and Stripes |  | Hawaii |  | for the brief space of two months | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme over hawaii=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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