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title: In pursuit of these ideas, Professor Jaggar proceeded to enlist supp… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 51

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In pursuit of these ideas, Professor Jaggar proceeded to enlist support from the Chamber of Commerce and the leading citizens of Honolulu.

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**Who acts:** Professor · **What happens:** proceed, enlist, lead, pursue · **To what, where:** pursuit, support, Chamber, ideas

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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 (Professor), 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:pg66516:29:51
# text = In pursuit of these ideas, Professor Jaggar proceeded to enlist support from the Chamber of Commerce and the leading citizens of Honolulu.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	Professor	Professor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Jaggar	Jaggar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	enlist	enlist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Commerce	commerce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Honolulu	Honolulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proceed** | past | Professor |  |  | pursuit of this ideas |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **enlist** | to-infinitive | Professor *not said here* | support |  | the Chamber of Commerce and the leading citizens of Honolulu |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent support=Theme |
| 3 | **lead** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 4 | **pursue** |  |  | this ideas |  |  |  |  | nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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