--- title: Against their armed possession of any part of the islands King Ka-me… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics description: Against their armed possession of any part of the islands King Ka-meha-meha made strong objection, but, according to the statements of sailors, the Russian flag was used by the high chief of Kauai until finally displaced by the Hawaiian flag. Who acts: high chief, Russians. A sentence of «Hawaiian H --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/22/24/) [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/) / 24 # Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 24 Against their armed possession of any part of the islands King Ka-meha-meha made strong objection, but, according to the statements of sailors, the Russian flag was used by the high chief of Kauai until finally displaced by the Hawaiian flag. **Who acts:** high chief, Russians · **What happens:** make, accord, use, displace, possess, state · **To what, where:** Russian flag, part, sailors 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 (high chief, Russians), 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:pg66357:22:24 # text = Against their armed possession of any part of the islands King Ka-meha-meha made strong objection, but, according to the statements of sailors, the Russian flag was used by the high chief of Kauai until finally displaced by the Hawaiian flag. 1 Against against ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 armed armed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 possession possession NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 7 det _ _ 7 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 12 Ka Ka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 meha meha X FW Foreign=Yes 11 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 meha meha X FW Foreign=Yes 14 flat:foreign _ _ 17 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ _ 18 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 objection objection NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 case _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 23 fixed _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 statements statement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 Russian Russian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 flag flag NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl:relcl _ _ 35 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 chief chief NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Kauai Kauai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 until until SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 42 finally finally ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 displaced displace VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 advcl _ _ 44 by by ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 Hawaiian hawaiian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 flag flag NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 2 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **use** | past · passive | the high chief of Kauai | the Russian flag | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 4 | **displace** | participle | the high chief of Kauai *not said here* | | | | | by the Hawaiian flag; finally *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **possess** | | Russians *= russian* | any part of the islands | | | | | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | | 7 | **state** | | | sailors | | | | | nom statement «communication 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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/22/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/22/25/) - ↑ back to [The Hawaiian Flag](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/22/)