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title: Allegiance could be transferred from one king to another, or from is… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Allegiance could be transferred from one king to another, or from island to island, without loss of rank. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 84

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Allegiance could be transferred from one king to another, or from island to island, without loss of rank.

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**What happens:** transfer · **To what, where:** Allegiance, another

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. 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:pg66357:14:84
# text = Allegiance could be transferred from one king to another, or from island to island, without loss of rank.
1	Allegiance	Allegiance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	transferred	transfer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	without	without	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **transfer** | could · passive |  | Allegiance |  | another |  | from one king; without loss of rank; island to island *parataxis* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from king=Initial\_Location to another=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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