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title: It was a dearly purchased victory which he never could have won with… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a dearly purchased victory which he never could have won without the aid of the Oahu warriors, and yet he was not profuse in thanks for the assistance given. Who acts: Battle, Hawaii. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773, with its dependen
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 87

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It was a dearly purchased victory which he never could have won without the aid of the Oahu warriors, and yet he was not profuse in thanks for the assistance given.

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**Who acts:** Battle, Hawaii · **What happens:** purchase, be, not win, not be, give · **To what, where:** dearly purchased victory, thanks, assistance

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Battle, Hawaii), 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:pg66357:13:87
# text = It was a dearly purchased victory which he never could have won without the aid of the Oahu warriors, and yet he was not profuse in thanks for the assistance given.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	dearly	dearly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	purchased	purchase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
12	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	without	without	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	profuse	profuse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **purchase** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Battle | a dearly purchased victory |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **win** | could · perfect | Hawaii | a dearly purchased victory |  |  |  | without the aid of the Oahu warriors | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | Hawaii |  |  | thanks for the assistance | yet | profuse *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** | participle |  | the assistance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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