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title: February 25, with great ceremony, the English flag was raised over K… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: February 25, with great ceremony, the English flag was raised over Ka-meha-meha’s royal home on the island of Hawaii. Who acts: great ceremony. 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 7

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February 25, with great ceremony, the English flag was raised over Ka-meha-meha’s royal home on the island of Hawaii.

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**Who acts:** great ceremony · **What happens:** raise · **To what, where:** English flag, Ka, 25

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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 (great ceremony), 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:pg66357:22:7
# text = February 25, with great ceremony, the English flag was raised over Ka-meha-meha’s royal home on the island of Hawaii.
1	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
2	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | past · passive | great ceremony *not said here* | the English flag |  | Ka |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over ka=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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