--- title: The English standard bearers advanced towards his majesty, their fla… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics description: The English standard bearers advanced towards his majesty, their flags bowed gracefully, and a broad, beautiful Hawaiian banner, exhibiting a crown and olive branch, was unfurled over the heads of the king and his attending chieftains. Who acts: English standard bearers. A sentence of «Hawaiian Hist --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/22/80/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Historical Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/) / [The Hawaiian Flag](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/22/) / 80 # Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 80 The English standard bearers advanced towards his majesty, their flags bowed gracefully, and a broad, beautiful Hawaiian banner, exhibiting a crown and olive branch, was unfurled over the heads of the king and his attending chieftains. **Who acts:** English standard bearers · **What happens:** advance, bow, exhibit, unfurl · **To what, where:** broad beautiful Hawaiian banner, majesty, flags, crown, heads 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 (English standard bearers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66357:22:80 # text = The English standard bearers advanced towards his majesty, their flags bowed gracefully, and a broad, beautiful Hawaiian banner, exhibiting a crown and olive branch, was unfurled over the heads of the king and his attending chieftains. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 standard standard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 bearers bearer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 advanced advance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 towards towards ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 flags flag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 bowed bow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 13 gracefully gracefully ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 17 broad broad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 Hawaiian hawaiian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 banner banner NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 exhibiting exhibit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 olive olive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 unfurled unfurl VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 32 over over ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 40 attending attending NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 chieftains chieftain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **advance** | past | the English standard bearers | a broad beautiful Hawaiian banner | | admiral's majesty bearers's flags | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards majesty=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **bow** | participle | | bearers's flags *not said here* | | | | gracefully *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **exhibit** | gerund | the English standard bearers *not said here* | a crown and olive branch | | | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | | 4 | **unfurl** | past · passive | the English standard bearers *not said here* | | | the heads of the king and admiral's attending chieftains | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V» | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/22/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/22/81/) - ↑ back to [The Hawaiian Flag](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/22/)