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title: For expeditions in case of disaster or otherwise, a relatively short… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: For expeditions in case of disaster or otherwise, a relatively short route is assured, with abundant means of transportation to Pacific and East Indian ports. Who acts: abundant. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Foundation of the Observatory, with its de
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 21

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For expeditions in case of disaster or otherwise, a relatively short route is assured, with abundant means of transportation to Pacific and East Indian ports.

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**Who acts:** abundant · **What happens:** assure, mean · **To what, where:** short route, Indian ports

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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 (abundant), 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:pg66516:29:21
# text = For expeditions in case of disaster or otherwise, a relatively short route is assured, with abundant means of transportation to Pacific and East Indian ports.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	expeditions	expedition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	disaster	disaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	relatively	relatively	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	assured	assure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	abundant	abundant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nsubj	_	_
19	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	transportation	transportation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	ports	port	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assure** | present · passive |  | a short route |  |  |  | for expeditions in case of disaster | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for expedition=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **mean** | present | abundant | Indian ports |  |  |  | of transportation to Pacific and East | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent port=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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