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title: To Captain Beckley was entrusted the task of designing and making th… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: To Captain Beckley was entrusted the task of designing and making the first Hawaiian flag. Who acts: task. 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 37

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To Captain Beckley was entrusted the task of designing and making the first Hawaiian flag.

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**Who acts:** task · **What happens:** entrust, design, make · **To what, where:** task, Captain, first Hawaiian flag

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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 (task), 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:pg66357:22:37
# text = To Captain Beckley was entrusted the task of designing and making the first Hawaiian flag.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	Beckley	Beckley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	entrusted	entrust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	designing	design	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
14	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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