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title: Insult or injury at the hands of a superior chief was always conside… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Insult or injury at the hands of a superior chief was always considered good grounds for a transfer of allegiance. 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 92

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Insult or injury at the hands of a superior chief was always considered good grounds for a transfer of allegiance.

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**What happens:** consider, transfer · **To what, where:** Insult, allegiance

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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:pg66357:14:92
# text = Insult or injury at the hands of a superior chief was always considered good grounds for a transfer of allegiance.
1	Insult	insult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	superior	superior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
13	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	13	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	transfer	transfer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	allegiance	allegiance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | past · passive |  | Insult at the hands of a superior chief or injury |  |  |  | for a transfer of allegiance; good grounds *obj*; always *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme grounds=Attribute |
| 2 | **transfer** |  |  | allegiance |  |  |  |  | nom transfer «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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