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title: On February 25, 1843, the Hawaiian flag was hauled down and the Unio… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: On February 25, 1843, the Hawaiian flag was hauled down and the Union Jack was once more raised over a part of the islands. 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 63

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On February 25, 1843, the Hawaiian flag was hauled down and the Union Jack was once more raised over a part of the islands.

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**What happens:** haul down, raise · **To what, where:** Hawaiian flag, 25, Union Jack, part

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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: 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:pg66357:22:63
# text = On February 25, 1843, the Hawaiian flag was hauled down and the Union Jack was once more raised over a part of the islands.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	1843	1843	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	hauled	haul	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
18	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	_
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **haul down** | past · passive |  | the Hawaiian flag |  | 25  February |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **raise** | past · passive |  | the Union Jack |  | a part of the islands |  | once *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over part=Destination |

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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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