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description: In this place it is well to note a fact which makes the scientific study of the active fire-lake of living volcanoes a very valuable index of coming events. Who acts: place, fact. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Islands, with its dependency
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 32

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In this place it is well to note a fact which makes the scientific study of the active fire-lake of living volcanoes a very valuable index of coming events.

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**Who acts:** place, fact · **What happens:** be, make, live, come, study · **To what, where:** place, scientific study, active fire lake

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Islands. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, fact), 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:pg66516:2:32
# text = In this place it is well to note a fact which makes the scientific study of the active fire-lake of living volcanoes a very valuable index of coming events.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	note	note	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	scientific	scientific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
24	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	index	index	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	amod	_	_
31	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | place |  |  | this place |  | a fact *obj*; note, well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | a fact | the scientific study of the active fire lake of living volcanoes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset study=Product |
| 3 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **study** |  |  | the active fire lake of living volcanoes |  |  |  |  | nom study «act transitive»: of=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 Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (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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