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title: Monday forenoon, “a parade of several hundred English marines appear… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Monday forenoon, “a parade of several hundred English marines appeared on the plain of Honolulu (now known as Thomas Square), with their officers, their banners waving proudly and their arms glittering in the sunbeams. Who acts: Monday forenoon, banners, arms. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Lege
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 78

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Monday forenoon, “a parade of several hundred English marines appeared on the plain of Honolulu (now known as Thomas Square), with their officers, their banners waving proudly and their arms glittering in the sunbeams.

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**Who acts:** Monday forenoon, banners, arms · **What happens:** appear, know, wave, glitter · **To what, where:** plain, sunbeams

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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 (Monday forenoon, banners, arms), 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:pg66357:22:78
# text = Monday forenoon, “a parade of several hundred English marines appeared on the plain of Honolulu (now known as Thomas Square), with their officers, their banners waving proudly and their arms glittering in the sunbeams.
1	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	forenoon	forenoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	parade	parade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	marines	marine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
12	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Honolulu	Honolulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	parataxis	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Thomas	Thomas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Square	Square	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	banners	banner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
32	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
33	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	conj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	sunbeams	sunbeam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** *in a quote* | past | Monday forenoon |  |  | the plain |  | with marines's officers and officers's banners | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on plain=Location |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  | now | as Thomas Square | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as square=Attribute |
| 3 | **wave** *in a quote* | gerund | officers's banners *not said here* |  |  |  |  | proudly *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **glitter** *in a quote* | gerund | banners's arms |  |  | the sunbeams |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunbeam=Location |

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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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