x1 is the captain/commander/leader/boss/superior of/to the captain/commander/leader/boss/superior of/to the captain/commander/leader/boss/superior of/to the ... captain/commander/leader/boss/superior of/to x2 (subject, entity, vehicle, domain), connected by intermediate steps x3.
If x2 is an entity, then x1 is x2's boss' boss' boss' … boss. In the U.S. military, the President of the United States (in the capacity of Commander-in-Chief) is the jatny'utka of every member of the military along some graph-path/hierarchy of command. This word is a brapagjvo due to the presence of the zevla veljvo ".utka".