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title: When the king made Honolulu his chief royal residence the flag float… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: When the king made Honolulu his chief royal residence the flag floated over his house near the seashore. Who acts: king, flag. 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 21

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When the king made Honolulu his chief royal residence the flag floated over his house near the seashore.

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**Who acts:** king, flag · **What happens:** make, float · **To what, where:** chief royal residence, Honolulu, house

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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 (king, 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:pg66357:22:21
# text = When the king made Honolulu his chief royal residence the flag floated over his house near the seashore.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	Honolulu	Honolulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	residence	residence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	floated	float	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	near	near	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	seashore	seashore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the king | king's chief royal residence | Honolulu |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset honolulu=Beneficiary residence=Product |
| 2 | **float** | past | the flag |  |  | king's house |  | near the seashore | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme over house=Source near seashore=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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