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title: Mrs. Garland, an eye-witness, said: “The music ceased and for one in… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Mrs. Garland, an eye-witness, said: “The music ceased and for one instant the Hawaiian flag still floated, then as it was slowly lowered, utter stillness held every one mute. Who acts: Mrs., music, Hawaiian flag, utter stillness. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The H
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 154

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Mrs. Garland, an eye-witness, said: “The music ceased and for one instant the Hawaiian flag still floated, then as it was slowly lowered, utter stillness held every one mute.

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**Who acts:** Mrs., music, Hawaiian flag, utter stillness · **What happens:** say, cease, float, lower, hold · **To what, where:** flag, one mute · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Mrs., music, Hawaiian flag, utter stillness), 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:pg66357:22:154
# text = Mrs. Garland, an eye-witness, said: “The music ceased and for one instant the Hawaiian flag still floated, then as it was slowly lowered, utter stillness held every one mute.
1	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	Garland	Garland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	ceased	cease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	floated	float	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
29	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	lowered	lower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	utter	utter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	stillness	stillness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	det	_	_
36	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	mute	mute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mrs. |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **cease** *in a quote* | past | the music |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **float** *in a quote* | past | the Hawaiian flag |  |  |  | still | for one instant | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lower** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | flag |  |  | then | utter stillness *obl*; slowly *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **hold** *in a quote* | participle | utter stillness *not said here* | every one mute |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mute=Theme |

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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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