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title: “There was another gleam of colour and the Hawaiian flag crawled up… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “There was another gleam of colour and the Hawaiian flag crawled up the now taut ropes and shook itself free, its blue, white and crimson bars floating in their accustomed place. Who acts: gleam, Hawaiian flag, blue bars. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian 
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 139

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“There was another gleam of colour and the Hawaiian flag crawled up the now taut ropes and shook itself free, its blue, white and crimson bars floating in their accustomed place.

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**Who acts:** gleam, Hawaiian flag, blue bars · **What happens:** be, crawl up, shake, float · **To what, where:** taut ropes, flag, accustomed place

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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 (gleam, Hawaiian flag, blue bars), 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:pg66357:22:139
# text = “There was another gleam of colour and the Hawaiian flag crawled up the now taut ropes and shook itself free, its blue, white and crimson bars floating in their accustomed place.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	gleam	gleam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	crawled	crawl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	taut	taut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
24	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	crimson	crimson	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
29	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
30	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	accustomed	accustomed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | past | another gleam of colour and the Hawaiian flag |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **crawl up** *in a quote* | participle | the Hawaiian flag *not said here* | the taut ropes |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location rope=Theme |
| 3 | **shake** *in a quote* | past | the Hawaiian flag *not said here* | flag |  |  |  | free *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent itself=Patient |
| 4 | **float** *in a quote* | gerund | flag's blue bars *not said here* |  |  | gleam's accustomed place |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=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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