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title: Other volcanoes are more or less connected in chains, making many st… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Other volcanoes are more or less connected in chains, making many stations necessary in order to determine the relations of the different craters to each other. Who acts: Other volcanoes. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Foundation of the Observatory, wi
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 14

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Other volcanoes are more or less connected in chains, making many stations necessary in order to determine the relations of the different craters to each other.

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**Who acts:** Other volcanoes · **What happens:** be, connect, make, determine · **To what, where:** chains, many stations, relations

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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: who acts (Other volcanoes), 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:pg66516:29:14
# text = Other volcanoes are more or less connected in chains, making many stations necessary in order to determine the relations of the different craters to each other.
1	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	stations	station	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
15	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	18	mark	_	_
16	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	fixed	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	determine	determine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	craters	crater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	24	obl	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Other volcanoes |  |  |  |  | more *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **connect** | participle | Other volcanoes *not said here* |  |  | chains |  | less *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | Other volcanoes *not said here* | many stations |  |  |  | necessary *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset station=Product |
| 4 | **determine** | to-infinitive | Other volcanoes *not said here* | the relations of the different craters |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relation=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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