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title: On February 25, 1794, forty-nine years before, Vancouver’s flag-rais… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: On February 25, 1794, forty-nine years before, Vancouver’s flag-raising ceremony had taken place. 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 64

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On February 25, 1794, forty-nine years before, Vancouver’s flag-raising ceremony had taken place.

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**What happens:** raise, take · **To what, where:** raising ceremony, 25

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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:pg66357:22:64
# text = On February 25, 1794, forty-nine years before, Vancouver’s flag-raising ceremony had taken place.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	1794	1794	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	before	before	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	Vancouver	Vancouver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	raising	raise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | flag *compound* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past · perfect · passive |  | Vancouver's raising ceremony |  | 25  February  forty |  | place *obj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination |

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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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