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title: Isabella Bird Bishop, author of “Six Months in the Sandwich Islands,… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Isabella Bird Bishop, author of “Six Months in the Sandwich Islands,” visited this active crater in 1874, and wrote about the crater itself. Who acts: Isabella Bird Bishop. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity, with its dependency tree and 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 53

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Isabella Bird Bishop, author of “Six Months in the Sandwich Islands,” visited this active crater in 1874, and wrote about the crater itself.

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**Who acts:** Isabella Bird Bishop · **What happens:** visit, write · **To what, where:** active crater, 1874

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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 (Isabella Bird Bishop), 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:pg66516:27:53
# text = Isabella Bird Bishop, author of “Six Months in the Sandwich Islands,” visited this active crater in 1874, and wrote about the crater itself.
1	Isabella	Isabella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Bishop	Bishop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	Months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Sandwich	Sandwich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
16	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	crater	crater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	1874	1874	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	crater	crater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	27	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | past | Isabella Bird Bishop | this active crater |  | 1874 |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crater=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **write** | past | Isabella Bird Bishop *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the crater  crater | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about crater=Topic |

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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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