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title: The purpose of the science of geophysics is to investigate all the p… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The purpose of the science of geophysics is to investigate all the physical and chemical processes going on in the earth. Who acts: purpose, physical processes, science. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Foundation of the Observatory, with its dependency 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 5

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The purpose of the science of geophysics is to investigate all the physical and chemical processes going on in the earth.

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**Who acts:** purpose, physical processes, science · **What happens:** be, go on, purpose · **To what, where:** earth

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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 (purpose, physical processes, science), 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:pg66516:29:5
# text = The purpose of the science of geophysics is to investigate all the physical and chemical processes going on in the earth.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	geophysics	geophysics	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	investigate	investigate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	physical	physical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	chemical	chemical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	processes	process	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
17	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the purpose of the science of geophysics |  |  |  |  | all physical processes *obj*; investigate *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go on** | gerund | all physical processes *not said here* |  |  | the earth |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in earth=Location |
| 3 | **purpose** |  | the science of geophysics |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition 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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