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title: To erect buildings on the brink of the Volcano of Kilauea, in which… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: To erect buildings on the brink of the Volcano of Kilauea, in which to house the instruments, library, and offices for working up and tabulating the statistics, records, and information obtained. Who acts: offices. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Founda
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 33

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To erect buildings on the brink of the Volcano of Kilauea, in which to house the instruments, library, and offices for working up and tabulating the statistics, records, and information obtained.

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**Who acts:** offices · **What happens:** work up, tabulate, obtain · **To what, where:** statistics, erect buildings

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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 (offices), 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:pg66516:29:33
# text = To erect buildings on the brink of the Volcano of Kilauea, in which to house the instruments, library, and offices for working up and tabulating the statistics, records, and information obtained.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
2	erect	erect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	brink	brink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Volcano	Volcano	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	offices	office	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	tabulating	tabulate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	statistics	statistic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	records	record	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work up** | gerund | offices *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tabulate** | gerund | offices *not said here* | the statistics and records |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent statistic=Patient |
| 3 | **obtain** | participle · passive |  | erect buildings on the brink of the Volcano of Kilauea and offices |  |  |  | information *nsubj:pass* | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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