Remember how movement is so important in transformational grammar?
![Wh-move](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/q_glossy,ret_img,w_300/http://www.fujisantrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Wh-move1-300x260.png)
Well, Unification Grammars (UGs) try to get rid of movement altogether. Look at a very simple sentence such as this:
1. I like Taro.
![SimpleSVO](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/q_glossy,ret_img,w_300/http://www.fujisantrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SimpleSVO-300x256.png)
Well, you can “move” the complement, Taro, to the beginning of the sentence if you want.
2. Taro, I like.
You might say this to contrast with someone else. For example:
3. Taro, I like (but Ichiro, I can’t stand).
UGs suggest that this movement is just an illusion. What is really happening is that the verb’s VALENCE features are being passed up the tree somehow.
![SLASH](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/q_glossy,ret_img,w_300/http://www.fujisantrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SLASH-300x243.png)
For example, maybe the information in the COMPS list is copied and the COMPS list item is deleted, something like this.
![DELETED](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/q_glossy,ret_img,w_300/http://www.fujisantrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DELETED-300x237.png)
Then the information about the DELETED item is just carried up by verbs as usual in the same way that other information (like CONTENT) is carried by verbs.
![Filler](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/q_glossy,ret_img,w_300/http://www.fujisantrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Filler-300x240.png)