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title: The troops of the Provisional Government presented arms, but the Ame… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The troops of the Provisional Government presented arms, but the American men-of-war in the harbour did not salute the restored flag.” Who acts: troops, American men. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 141

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The troops of the Provisional Government presented arms, but the American men-of-war in the harbour did not salute the restored flag.”

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**Who acts:** troops, American men · **What happens:** present, not salute, restore · **To what, where:** arms, restored flag

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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 (troops, American men), 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:pg66357:22:141
# text = The troops of the Provisional Government presented arms, but the American men-of-war in the harbour did not salute the restored flag.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Provisional	provisional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Government	Government	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	presented	present	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	salute	salute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	restored	restore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **present** | past | the troops of the Provisional Government | arms |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **salute** | past · do-support | the American men of war in the harbour | the restored flag |  |  |  |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Topic |
| 3 | **restore** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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