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title: The “army” enlisted by Lord Paulet gladly renounced allegiance to En… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The “army” enlisted by Lord Paulet gladly renounced allegiance to England. Who acts: army. 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 88

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The “army” enlisted by Lord Paulet gladly renounced allegiance to England.

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**Who acts:** army · **What happens:** enlist, renounce · **To what, where:** army, allegiance, England

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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 (army), 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:pg66357:22:88
# text = The “army” enlisted by Lord Paulet gladly renounced allegiance to England.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	enlisted	enlist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	Paulet	Paulet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	renounced	renounce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	allegiance	allegiance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enlist** | participle |  | the army *not said here* |  |  |  | by Lord | vn volunteer-95.4-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **renounce** | past | the army | allegiance | England |  |  | gladly *property* | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent allegiance=Source |

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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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