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description: This was saluted by the English troops with field pieces, then by the guns of Lord Paulet’s ship, whose yards were manned in homage to the restored sovereign. Who acts: English troops. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag, with its dependency tree and th
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 81

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This was saluted by the English troops with field pieces, then by the guns of Lord Paulet’s ship, whose yards were manned in homage to the restored sovereign.

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**Who acts:** English troops · **What happens:** salute, man, restore · **To what, where:** This, yards, homage

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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 (English troops), 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:pg66357:22:81
# text = This was saluted by the English troops with field pieces, then by the guns of Lord Paulet’s ship, whose yards were manned in homage to the restored sovereign.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	saluted	salute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	Paulet	Paulet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
20	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	manned	man	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	homage	homage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	restored	restore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **salute** | past · passive | the English troops with field pieces | This |  |  |  | by the guns of Lord's ship | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 2 | **man** | past · passive |  | yards |  | homage |  | to the restored sovereign | tree rules |
| 3 | **restore** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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