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title: The work has been concerned with geodesy, astronomy, magnetism, and… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The work has been concerned with geodesy, astronomy, magnetism, and geology, and has been partly under the direction of officers of the Department of Civil Engineering and partly under professors of geology. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Foundation of
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 3

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The work has been concerned with geodesy, astronomy, magnetism, and geology, and has been partly under the direction of officers of the Department of Civil Engineering and partly under professors of geology.

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**What happens:** concern, be · **To what, where:** work, direction

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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:pg66516:29:3
# text = The work has been concerned with geodesy, astronomy, magnetism, and geology, and has been partly under the direction of officers of the Department of Civil Engineering and partly under professors of geology.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	concerned	concern	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	geodesy	geodesy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	astronomy	astronomy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	magnetism	magnetism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	geology	geology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
19	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Department	Department	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Civil	Civil	PROPN	NNP	_	30	flat	_	_
30	Engineering	Engineering	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	under	under	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	professors	professor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	geology	geology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **concern** | present · perfect · passive |  | the work |  |  |  | with geodesy and magnetism and geology | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present · perfect |  |  |  | the direction |  | of officers of the Department of Civil Engineering and professors of geology; partly *property* | 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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