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title: The missionary mother who put down the facts therein recorded never… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The missionary mother who put down the facts therein recorded never dreamed of being scientific. Who acts: missionary mother. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 2

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The missionary mother who put down the facts therein recorded never dreamed of being scientific.

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**Who acts:** missionary mother · **What happens:** put down, not dream, be · **To what, where:** facts, missionary mother

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (missionary mother), 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:pg66516:27:2
# text = The missionary mother who put down the facts therein recorded never dreamed of being scientific.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	missionary	missionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
10	recorded	record	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
15	scientific	scientific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put down** | past | the missionary mother | the facts |  |  |  | therein *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fact=Goal |
| 2 | **not** **dream** | past · passive |  | the missionary mother |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | scientific *property* | tree rules |

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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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