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title: The beautiful and loved flag of Hawaii, the royal flag from the time… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The beautiful and loved flag of Hawaii, the royal flag from the times of Ka-meha-meha I, the ensign of the Provisional Government, unchanged, became the banner of the first Republic of the Pacific Ocean. Who acts: beautiful flag. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The H
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 143

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The beautiful and loved flag of Hawaii, the royal flag from the times of Ka-meha-meha I, the ensign of the Provisional Government, unchanged, became the banner of the first Republic of the Pacific Ocean.

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**Who acts:** beautiful flag · **What happens:** love, become · **To what, where:** banner

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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 (beautiful 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:pg66357:22:143
# text = The beautiful and loved flag of Hawaii, the royal flag from the times of Ka-meha-meha I, the ensign of the Provisional Government, unchanged, became the banner of the first Republic of the Pacific Ocean.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	meha	meha	X	FW	_	16	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	flat:foreign	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	ensign	ensign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Provisional	provisional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	unchanged	unchanged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
32	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	banner	banner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	xcomp	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	38	amod	_	_
38	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | the beautiful flag of Hawaii and the royal flag from the times of Ka *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **become** | past | the beautiful flag of Hawaii and the royal flag from the times of Ka | the banner of the first Republic of the Pacific Ocean |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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