Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 37
To Captain Beckley was entrusted the task of designing and making the first Hawaiian flag.
Who acts: task · What happens: entrust, design, make · To what, where: task, Captain, first Hawaiian flag
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 (task), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 Captain | case |
| 2 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 entrusted | obl |
| 3 | Beckley | Beckley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Captain | flat |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 entrusted | aux:pass |
| 5 | entrusted | entrust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 task | det |
| 7 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 entrusted | obj |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 designing | mark |
| 9 | designing | design | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 task | acl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 making | cc |
| 11 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 designing | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 flag | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 flag | amod |
| 14 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 flag | amod |
| 15 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 making | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 entrusted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entrust | past · passive | the task | Captain | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: task=Theme to captain=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | design | gerund | the task not said here | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund | the task not said here | the first Hawaiian flag | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flag=Product |
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.
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