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title: H. M. Whitney, the editor of the Hawaiian Gazette, was a witness of… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: H. M. Whitney, the editor of the Hawaiian Gazette, was a witness of this submarine eruption. Who acts: H.. 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 75

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H. M. Whitney, the editor of the Hawaiian Gazette, was a witness of this submarine eruption.

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**Who acts:** H. · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** witness

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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 (H.), 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:pg66516:27:75
# text = H. M. Whitney, the editor of the Hawaiian Gazette, was a witness of this submarine eruption.
1	H.	H.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
2	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Whitney	Whitney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	editor	editor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Gazette	Gazette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	submarine	submarine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	eruption	eruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | H. | a witness |  |  |  | of this submarine eruption | 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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