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title: The Frenchman did not quite dare to pull that flag down in the face… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The Frenchman did not quite dare to pull that flag down in the face of very earnest protests from both the English and American consuls. Who acts: Frenchman. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 96

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The Frenchman did not quite dare to pull that flag down in the face of very earnest protests from both the English and American consuls.

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**Who acts:** Frenchman · **What happens:** not dare, not pull down · **To what, where:** flag, face

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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 (Frenchman), 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:pg66357:22:96
# text = The Frenchman did not quite dare to pull that flag down in the face of very earnest protests from both the English and American consuls.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Frenchman	Frenchman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	earnest	earn	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	protests	protest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
20	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc:preconj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	consuls	consul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **dare** | past · do-support | the Frenchman |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **pull down** | to-infinitive | the Frenchman *not said here* | that flag |  | the face of earnest protests from the English consuls |  | down *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Theme |

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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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