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title: Alexander, in a report to the Hawaiian Historical Society, says that… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Alexander, in a report to the Hawaiian Historical Society, says that upon the outbreak of this war a friendly American persuaded Ka-meha-meha I “to have a flag of his own.” Who acts: Alexander, friendly American. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag, wit
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 32

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Alexander, in a report to the Hawaiian Historical Society, says that upon the outbreak of this war a friendly American persuaded Ka-meha-meha I “to have a flag of his own.”

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**Who acts:** Alexander, friendly American · **What happens:** say, persuade, have · **To what, where:** that, Ka, flag · **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 (Alexander, friendly American), 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:pg66357:22:32
# text = Alexander, in a report to the Hawaiian Historical Society, says that upon the outbreak of this war a friendly American persuaded Ka-meha-meha I “to have a flag of his own.”
1	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	Historical	Historical	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	obj	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	outbreak	outbreak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	American	American	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
24	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	dep	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Alexander | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **persuade** | past | a friendly American | Ka |  |  |  | upon the outbreak of this war; I *nsubj* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ka=Patient |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a friendly American *not said here* | a flag of war's own |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Patient |

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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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