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title: She had a little curiosity to see how frequently these earthquakes d… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: She had a little curiosity to see how frequently these earthquakes disturbed her home. Who acts: Institute, earthquakes. 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 7

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She had a little curiosity to see how frequently these earthquakes disturbed her home.

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**Who acts:** Institute, earthquakes · **What happens:** have, see, disturb · **To what, where:** little curiosity, home

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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 (Institute, earthquakes), 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:pg66516:27:7
# text = She had a little curiosity to see how frequently these earthquakes disturbed her home.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	disturbed	disturb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Institute | a little curiosity |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curiosity=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | Institute *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **disturb** | past | this earthquakes | Institute's home |  |  |  | frequently *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus home=Experiencer |

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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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