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title: Lord Paulet had collected all the Hawaiian flags and destroyed them,… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Lord Paulet had collected all the Hawaiian flags and destroyed them, but a new flag was hastily made and raised over the visitors, and a salute fired in its honour—to Lord Paulet’s helpless indignation. Who acts: Lord, salute, flag. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Th
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 72

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Lord Paulet had collected all the Hawaiian flags and destroyed them, but a new flag was hastily made and raised over the visitors, and a salute fired in its honour—to Lord Paulet’s helpless indignation.

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**Who acts:** Lord, salute, flag · **What happens:** collect, destroy, make, raise, fire, honour · **To what, where:** Hawaiian flags, Chiefs, new flag, honour

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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 (Lord, salute, 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:pg66357:22:72
# text = Lord Paulet had collected all the Hawaiian flags and destroyed them, but a new flag was hastily made and raised over the visitors, and a salute fired in its honour—to Lord Paulet’s helpless indignation.
1	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Paulet	Paulet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	salute	salute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	fired	fire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
35	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	_
36	Paulet	Paulet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’s	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
38	helpless	helpless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	indignation	indignation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | past · perfect | Lord | all Hawaiian flags |  |  |  | Lord's helpless indignation *parataxis* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Theme |
| 2 | **destroy** | past | Lord *not said here* | Chiefs *= chief* |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | past · passive |  | a new flag |  |  |  | hastily *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **raise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | the visitors *obl:agent* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fire** | participle | a salute |  |  | flag's honour |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in honour=Destination |
| 6 | **honour** |  | flag |  |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=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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