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title: This sum was not sufficient to do the work satisfactorily and the de… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: This sum was not sufficient to do the work satisfactorily and the development of the plan was halted in consequence. Who acts: sum. 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 claus
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 54

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This sum was not sufficient to do the work satisfactorily and the development of the plan was halted in consequence.

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**Who acts:** sum · **What happens:** not be, do, halt, develop · **To what, where:** work, development, consequence, plan

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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 (sum), 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:pg66516:29:54
# text = This sum was not sufficient to do the work satisfactorily and the development of the plan was halted in consequence.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	satisfactorily	satisfactorily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	halted	halt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	consequence	consequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | this sum |  |  |  |  | sufficient *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | this sum *not said here* | the work |  |  |  | satisfactorily *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 3 | **halt** | past · passive |  | the development of the plan |  | consequence |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **develop** |  |  | the plan |  |  |  |  | nom development «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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