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title: G. Perret came from his observatory by Vesuvius and Professor E. G.… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: G. Perret came from his observatory by Vesuvius and Professor E. G. Shepherd from the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution at Washington, to study Kilauea, following the beginning of such observations already established by Professor Jaggar of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 58

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G. Perret came from his observatory by Vesuvius and Professor E. G. Shepherd from the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution at Washington, to study Kilauea, following the beginning of such observations already established by Professor Jaggar of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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**Who acts:** G. · **What happens:** come, study, follow, establish, begin · **To what, where:** observatory, Kilauea, beginning, such observations

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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: who acts (G.), 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:pg66516:26:58
# text = G. Perret came from his observatory by Vesuvius and Professor E. G. Shepherd from the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution at Washington, to study Kilauea, following the beginning of such observations already established by Professor Jaggar of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1	G.	G.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Perret	Perret	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	observatory	observatory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Vesuvius	Vesuvius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Professor	Professor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	E.	E.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	G.	G.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
13	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Geophysical	Geophysical	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Laboratory	Laboratory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Carnegie	Carnegie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Institution	institution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Washington	Washington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	study	study	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
27	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	observations	observation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	already	already	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	Professor	Professor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod:desc	_	_
39	Jaggar	Jaggar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	Massachusetts	Massachusetts	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	Institute	Institute	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Technology	Technology	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | G. |  |  | G.'s observatory |  | by Vesuvius and Professor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from observatory=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **study** | to-infinitive |  | Kilauea |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilauea=Topic |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  | the beginning of such observations |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beginning=Theme |
| 4 | **establish** | participle |  | such observations *not said here* |  |  |  | by Jaggar  Professor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **begin** |  |  | such observations |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event 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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