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title: He added that the main object of all the work should be humanitarian… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: He added that the main object of all the work should be humanitarian—earthquake prediction and methods of protecting life and property on the basis of sound scientific achievement. Who acts: work, main object, methods. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Fo
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 49

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He added that the main object of all the work should be humanitarian—earthquake prediction and methods of protecting life and property on the basis of sound scientific achievement.

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**Who acts:** work, main object, methods · **What happens:** add, be, protect · **To what, where:** life, basis · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (work, main object, methods), 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:pg66516:29:49
# text = He added that the main object of all the work should be humanitarian—earthquake prediction and methods of protecting life and property on the basis of sound scientific achievement.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	humanitarian	humanitarian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	prediction	prediction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	methods	method	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	protecting	protect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
21	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	basis	basis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	scientific	scientific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	achievement	achievement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | work |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | should | the main object of all work |  |  |  |  | earthquake prediction and methods *conj*; humanitarian *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **protect** | gerund | methods *not said here* | life and property |  | the basis of sound scientific achievement |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Beneficiary |

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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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