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title: Probably this flag was the first “Union Jack” adopted by King James,… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Probably this flag was the first “Union Jack” adopted by King James, 1603–1625, on the political union of England and Scotland. Who acts: flag. 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 8

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Probably this flag was the first “Union Jack” adopted by King James, 1603–1625, on the political union of England and Scotland.

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**Who acts:** flag · **What happens:** be, adopt · **To what, where:** first Union Jack

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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 (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:pg66357:22:8
# text = Probably this flag was the first “Union Jack” adopted by King James, 1603–1625, on the political union of England and Scotland.
1	Probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	1603	1603	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	1625	1625	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	union	union	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this flag |  |  |  |  | first, probably *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **adopt** | participle |  | first Union Jack *not said here* |  |  |  | by King James | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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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