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description: In 1911 the first successful attempt to secure the temperature of the boiling lava in the lake of fire was made scientifically. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hawaiian Volcanoes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 56

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In 1911 the first successful attempt to secure the temperature of the boiling lava in the lake of fire was made scientifically.

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**What happens:** secure, make · **To what, where:** temperature, lake, first successful attempt, 1911

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hawaiian Volcanoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66516:26:56
# text = In 1911 the first successful attempt to secure the temperature of the boiling lava in the lake of fire was made scientifically.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1911	1911	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
5	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	secure	secure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	boiling	boiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
22	scientifically	scientifically	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **secure** | to-infinitive |  | the temperature of the boiling lava |  | the lake of fire |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition temperature=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive |  | the first successful attempt |  | 1911 |  | scientifically *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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