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title: Excerpts from the Report of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Jan.–Mc… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Excerpts from the Report of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Jan.–Mch., 1912.—Published by the Society of Arts of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Foundation of the Observatory, with its dependency tree 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 1

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Excerpts from the Report of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Jan.–Mch., 1912.—Published by the Society of Arts of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston.

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**What happens:** publish, report · **To what, where:** Excerpts, Observatory Jan.

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Foundation of the Observatory. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66516:29:1
# text = Excerpts from the Report of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Jan.–Mch., 1912.—Published by the Society of Arts of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston.
1	Excerpts	excerpt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Volcano	Volcano	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Observatory	Observatory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Jan.	January	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Mch	Mch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	1912	1912	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl:agent	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Arts	Art	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Massachusetts	Massachusetts	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Institute	Institute	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Technology	Technology	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Boston	Boston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **publish** | participle |  | Excerpts from the Report of the Observatory Jan. *not said here* |  |  |  | the Society of Arts of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology *obl:agent* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **report** |  |  | the Observatory Jan. |  |  |  |  | nom report «communication 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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