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title: It remained the flag of the Republic until the news reached Honolulu… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: It remained the flag of the Republic until the news reached Honolulu that President McKinley, on July 7, 1898, had signed the joint resolution of annexation adopted by both houses of Congress. Who acts: flag, news. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag, w
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 144

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It remained the flag of the Republic until the news reached Honolulu that President McKinley, on July 7, 1898, had signed the joint resolution of annexation adopted by both houses of Congress.

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**Who acts:** flag, news · **What happens:** remain, reach, sign, adopt, resolve · **To what, where:** flag, Honolulu, McKinley, annexation

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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 (flag, news), 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:pg66357:22:144
# text = It remained the flag of the Republic until the news reached Honolulu that President McKinley, on July 7, 1898, had signed the joint resolution of annexation adopted by both houses of Congress.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remained	remain	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	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
12	Honolulu	Honolulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
14	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	McKinley	McKinley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:unmarked	_	_
19	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	1898	1898	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	signed	sign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	joint	joint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	resolution	resolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	annexation	annexation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Congress	Congress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | flag | the flag of the Republic |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flag=Attribute |
| 2 | **reach** | past | the news | Honolulu |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent honolulu=Theme |
| 3 | **sign** | past · perfect · passive |  | McKinley  President |  |  |  | the joint resolution of annexation *obj* | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient resolution=Topic |
| 4 | **adopt** | participle |  | annexation *not said here* |  |  |  | by both houses of Congress | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **resolve** |  |  | annexation |  |  |  |  | nom resolution «communication transitive»: of=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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