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title: Nevertheless, there was a nominal guardianship afforded by the prese… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Nevertheless, there was a nominal guardianship afforded by the presence of the English flag floating over the Hawaiian grass houses and fleets of boats. Who acts: nominal guardianship, English flag. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag, with its dependen
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 17

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Nevertheless, there was a nominal guardianship afforded by the presence of the English flag floating over the Hawaiian grass houses and fleets of boats.

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**Who acts:** nominal guardianship, English flag · **What happens:** be, afford, float · **To what, where:** nominal guardianship, Hawaiian grass houses

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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 (nominal guardianship, English 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:pg66357:22:17
# text = Nevertheless, there was a nominal guardianship afforded by the presence of the English flag floating over the Hawaiian grass houses and fleets of boats.
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	nominal	nominal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	guardianship	guardianship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
8	afforded	afford	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	fleets	fleet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a nominal guardianship |  |  | there |  | nevertheless *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **afford** | participle |  | a nominal guardianship *not said here* |  |  |  | by the presence of the English flag | tree rules |
| 3 | **float** | gerund | the English flag *not said here* |  |  | the Hawaiian grass houses and fleets of boats |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over house=Trajectory |

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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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