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title: This was apparently a compromise between the flags of the two antago… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: This was apparently a compromise between the flags of the two antagonistic English-speaking nations. Who acts: This. 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 39

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This was apparently a compromise between the flags of the two antagonistic English-speaking nations.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be, speak · **To what, where:** compromise · **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 (This), 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:pg66357:22:39
# text = This was apparently a compromise between the flags of the two antagonistic English-speaking nations.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	apparently	apparently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	compromise	compromise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
12	antagonistic	antagonistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | This | a compromise |  |  |  | between the flags of the two antagonistic speaking nations; apparently *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | English *compound* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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