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title: The flag would permit England to advance whatever claim might be des… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The flag would permit England to advance whatever claim might be desired in case of any great trouble. Who acts: flag. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 29

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The flag would permit England to advance whatever claim might be desired in case of any great trouble.

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**Who acts:** flag · **What happens:** permit, advance, desire · **To what, where:** England, claim, case

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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 (flag), 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:pg66357:22:29
# text = The flag would permit England to advance whatever claim might be desired in case of any great trouble.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	permit	permit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	advance	advance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	9	det	_	_
9	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	desired	desire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **permit** | would | the flag | England |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer england=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **advance** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the flag *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **desire** | might · passive |  | whatever claim |  | case of any great trouble |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=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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