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title: Life and property and family were absolutely at the will of the high… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Life and property and family were absolutely at the will of the high chief, but the servant could leave everything and seek another master. Who acts: Life, servant. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 95

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Life and property and family were absolutely at the will of the high chief, but the servant could leave everything and seek another master.

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**Who acts:** Life, servant · **What happens:** be, leave, seek · **To what, where:** everything, master

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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: who acts (Life, servant), 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:pg66357:14:95
# text = Life and property and family were absolutely at the will of the high chief, but the servant could leave everything and seek another master.
1	Life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
7	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
21	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	20	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
24	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Life and property and family |  |  |  |  | of the high chief; absolutely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | could | the servant | everything |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
| 3 | **seek** | infinitive | the servant *not said here* | another master |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme |

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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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