--- title: Lord Paulet then took possession of the fort, confiscated Hawaiian s… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics description: Lord Paulet then took possession of the fort, confiscated Hawaiian ships, compelled natives to enlist to form an English army, and began to increase taxes to meet the expenses of his new government. Who acts: Lord, possession. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/22/67/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Historical Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/) / [The Hawaiian Flag](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/22/) / 67 # Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 67 Lord Paulet then took possession of the fort, confiscated Hawaiian ships, compelled natives to enlist to form an English army, and began to increase taxes to meet the expenses of his new government. **Who acts:** Lord, possession · **What happens:** take, confiscate, compel, enlist, form, begin · **To what, where:** possession, Hawaiian ships, natives, English army, taxes, expenses 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 (Lord, possession), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66357:22:67 # text = Lord Paulet then took possession of the fort, confiscated Hawaiian ships, compelled natives to enlist to form an English army, and began to increase taxes to meet the expenses of his new government. 1 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 Paulet Paulet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 4 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 possession possession NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 fort fort NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 confiscated confiscate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 11 Hawaiian Hawaiian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 compelled compel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 natives native NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 enlist enlist VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 form form VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 increase increase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 taxes tax NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 expenses expense NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | Lord | possession of the fort | | | then | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | | 2 | **confiscate** | participle | possession of the fort *not said here* | Hawaiian ships | | | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme | | 3 | **compel** | past | Lord *not said here* | natives | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent native=Patient | | 4 | **enlist** | to-infinitive | Lord *not said here* | | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | | 5 | **form** | to-infinitive | Lord *not said here* | a English army | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location army=Theme | | 6 | **begin** | past | Lord *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **increase** | to-infinitive | Lord *not said here* | taxes | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer tax=Patient | | 8 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Lord *not said here* | the expenses of Lord's new government | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expense=Co-Agent | | 9 | **possess** | | | the fort | | | | | nom possession «act 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. - ← previous: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/22/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/22/68/) - ↑ back to [The Hawaiian Flag](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/22/)