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description: The failure to win the desired grant rankled in his heart and he still nourished the purpose of securing a foothold on the island of Oahu. Who acts: failure, purpose. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 88

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The failure to win the desired grant rankled in his heart and he still nourished the purpose of securing a foothold on the island of Oahu.

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**Who acts:** failure, purpose · **What happens:** win, desire, rankle, nourish, secure · **To what, where:** desired grant, heart, purpose, foothold, island

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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 (failure, purpose), 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:pg66357:13:88
# text = The failure to win the desired grant rankled in his heart and he still nourished the purpose of securing a foothold on the island of Oahu.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	failure	failure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	desired	desire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	grant	grant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	rankled	rankle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	nourished	nourish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	securing	secure	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	foothold	foothold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | to-infinitive | the failure *not said here* | the desired grant |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grant=Eventuality |
| 2 | **desire** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **rankle** | participle |  | the desired grant *not said here* |  | failure's heart |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **nourish** | past | the failure | the purpose |  |  | still |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Patient |
| 5 | **secure** | gerund | the purpose *not said here* | a foothold |  | the island of Oahu |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent foothold=Theme on island=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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