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title: But Ku—the chief—won the victory over the ocean. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: But Ku—the chief—won the victory over the ocean. Who acts: chief. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 102

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But Ku—the chief—won the victory over the ocean.

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**Who acts:** chief · **What happens:** win · **To what, where:** victory, ocean, chief

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief), 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:pg66357:11:102
# text = But Ku—the chief—won the victory over the ocean.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	Ku	Ku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past | the chief  Ku *not said here* | the victory |  | the ocean |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Eventuality |

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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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