Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 48
He gave command of this fort to Captain Beckley, and over it flung his new flag to the breeze.
Who acts: Kauai, fort · What happens: give, fling, command · To what, where: command, Captain, new flag, breeze, fort · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Kauai, fort), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 fort | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 fort | det |
| 6 | fort | fort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 command | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Captain | case |
| 8 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obl |
| 9 | Beckley | Beckley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Captain | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flung | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 flung | cc |
| 12 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 14 flung | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 flung | nsubj |
| 14 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 flag | nmod:poss |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 flag | amod |
| 17 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flung | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 breeze | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 breeze | det |
| 20 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flung | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Kauai | command of this fort | Captain | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent command=Theme to captain=Recipient | |||
| 2 | fling | past | fort | Kauai's new flag | the breeze | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent flag=Theme to breeze=Destination | |||
| 3 | command | this fort | nom command «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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