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title: The Hawaiian flag is surrounded by many historical memories which me… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The Hawaiian flag is surrounded by many historical memories which mean much to residents of both native and foreign descent, and they rejoice that the dear old flag is not lost from the nation’s history. Who acts: many historical memories, residents. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 168

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The Hawaiian flag is surrounded by many historical memories which mean much to residents of both native and foreign descent, and they rejoice that the dear old flag is not lost from the nation’s history.

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**Who acts:** many historical memories, residents · **What happens:** surround, mean, rejoice, not lose · **To what, where:** Hawaiian flag, much, dear old flag, history

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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 (many historical memories, residents), 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:pg66357:22:168
# text = The Hawaiian flag is surrounded by many historical memories which mean much to residents of both native and foreign descent, and they rejoice that the dear old flag is not lost from the nation’s history.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:agent	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
17	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’s	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surround** | present · passive | many historical memories | the Hawaiian flag |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | present | many historical memories | much to residents of both native descent |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Topic |
| 3 | **rejoice** | present | residents *= resident* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **not** **lose** | present · passive |  | the dear old flag |  | the nation's history |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme from history=Initial\_Location |

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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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