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title: It was necessary that the officials of the newly annexed islands sho… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: It was necessary that the officials of the newly annexed islands should take the oath of allegiance to the United States, and that the final change of government should be marked by a new and authorised flag-raising ceremony. Who acts: officials, new raising ceremony, government. A sentence of «Hawa
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 145

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It was necessary that the officials of the newly annexed islands should take the oath of allegiance to the United States, and that the final change of government should be marked by a new and authorised flag-raising ceremony.

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**Who acts:** officials, new raising ceremony, government · **What happens:** be, annex, take, mark, raise, change · **To what, where:** oath, United States, final change

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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: who acts (officials, new raising ceremony, government), 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:pg66357:22:145
# text = It was necessary that the officials of the newly annexed islands should take the oath of allegiance to the United States, and that the final change of government should be marked by a new and authorised flag-raising ceremony.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	annexed	annex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	csubj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	allegiance	allegiance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
35	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	authorised	authorised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	_
38	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	raising	raise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	amod	_	_
41	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | necessary *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **annex** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | should | the officials of the annexed islands | the oath of allegiance | the United States |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent oath=Theme to state=Destination |
| 4 | **mark** | should · passive | a new raising ceremony | the final change of government |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination |
| 5 | **raise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | flag *compound* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **change** |  | government |  |  |  |  |  | nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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