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title: This will be of value in exciting interest with a view to securing a… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: This will be of value in exciting interest with a view to securing an endowment. Who acts: This. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Foundation of the Observatory, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 36

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This will be of value in exciting interest with a view to securing an endowment.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be, secure · **To what, where:** exciting interest, endowment

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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 (This), 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:pg66516:29:36
# text = This will be of value in exciting interest with a view to securing an endowment.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	exciting	exciting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	securing	secure	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	endowment	endowment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | This |  |  | exciting interest with a view |  | of value | tree rules |
| 2 | **secure** | gerund | This *not said here* | a endowment |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition endowment=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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