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title: The church was beautifully decorated and on the pulpit was the resto… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The church was beautifully decorated and on the pulpit was the restored Hawaiian 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 87

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The church was beautifully decorated and on the pulpit was the restored Hawaiian flag.

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**What happens:** decorate, restore, be · **To what, where:** church, restored Hawaiian flag, pulpit

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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: 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:pg66357:22:87
# text = The church was beautifully decorated and on the pulpit was the restored Hawaiian flag.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pulpit	pulpit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	restored	restore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
13	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decorate** | past · passive |  | the church |  |  |  | beautifully *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **restore** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | the restored Hawaiian flag |  | the pulpit |  |  | tree rules |

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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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