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title: To carry on research, as may seem expedient, in terrestrial gravitat… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: To carry on research, as may seem expedient, in terrestrial gravitation, magnetism, and variation of latitude. Who acts: latitude. 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 45

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To carry on research, as may seem expedient, in terrestrial gravitation, magnetism, and variation of latitude.

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**Who acts:** latitude · **What happens:** carry, seem, vary · **To what, where:** research, expedient, terrestrial gravitation

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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 (latitude), 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:pg66516:29:45
# text = To carry on research, as may seem expedient, in terrestrial gravitation, magnetism, and variation of latitude.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	carry	carry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	research	research	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	seem	seem	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	expedient	expedient	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	terrestrial	terrestrial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	gravitation	gravitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	magnetism	magnetism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	variation	variation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	latitude	latitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | research |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **seem** | may |  | expedient |  | terrestrial gravitation and magnetism and variation of latitude |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme expedient=Attribute |
| 3 | **vary** |  | latitude |  |  |  |  |  | nom variation «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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