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title: To erect subordinate instrument stations, with self-recording instru… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: To erect subordinate instrument stations, with self-recording instruments, and to employ voluntary observers, at various points hereafter to be determined. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Foundation of the Observatory, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 40

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To erect subordinate instrument stations, with self-recording instruments, and to employ voluntary observers, at various points hereafter to be determined.

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**What happens:** employ, determine · **To what, where:** voluntary observers, points hereafter

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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:pg66516:29:40
# text = To erect subordinate instrument stations, with self-recording instruments, and to employ voluntary observers, at various points hereafter to be determined.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	erect	erect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	subordinate	subordinate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	stations	station	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	recording	recording	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	employ	employ	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	voluntary	voluntary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	observers	observer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	compound	_	_
22	hereafter	hereafter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	determined	determine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **employ** | to-infinitive |  | voluntary observers |  | points hereafter |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent observer=Theme |
| 2 | **determine** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S» |

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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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