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title: In front of the palace, now the Capitol Building, was a grandstand,… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In front of the palace, now the Capitol Building, was a grandstand, about which the Hawaiian and United States colours were intertwined. Who acts: colours. 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 149

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In front of the palace, now the Capitol Building, was a grandstand, about which the Hawaiian and United States colours were intertwined.

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**Who acts:** colours · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** grandstand, front

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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 (colours), 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:pg66357:22:149
# text = In front of the palace, now the Capitol Building, was a grandstand, about which the Hawaiian and United States colours were intertwined.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Capitol	Capitol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Building	Building	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	grandstand	grandstand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
23	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	intertwined	intertwined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a grandstand |  | front of the palace and the Capitol Building |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Hawaiian and United States's colours |  |  |  |  | about a grandstand; intertwined *property* | tree rules |

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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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