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title: Dr. Day, director of this laboratory, in correspondence with Profess… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Dr. Day, director of this laboratory, in correspondence with Professors Daly and Jaggar during the winter of 1909–10 agreed to send Dr. Shepherd to Kilauea and provide travelling expenses if the Institute of Technology would provide instruments and living expenses during a stay at the Volcano House 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 61

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Dr. Day, director of this laboratory, in correspondence with Professors Daly and Jaggar during the winter of 1909–10 agreed to send Dr. Shepherd to Kilauea and provide travelling expenses if the Institute of Technology would provide instruments and living expenses during a stay at the Volcano House devoted to measurement of the temperature of liquid lava.

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**Who acts:** Day, Institute, stay · **What happens:** agree, send, provide, devote, measure · **To what, where:** Dr. Shepherd, Kilauea, travelling expenses, instruments, Volcano House, temperature

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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 (Day, Institute, stay), 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:pg66516:29:61
# text = Dr. Day, director of this laboratory, in correspondence with Professors Daly and Jaggar during the winter of 1909–10 agreed to send Dr. Shepherd to Kilauea and provide travelling expenses if the Institute of Technology would provide instruments and living expenses during a stay at the Volcano House devoted to measurement of the temperature of liquid lava.
1	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	director	director	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	laboratory	laboratory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	correspondence	correspondence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Professors	Professor	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:desc	_	_
13	Daly	Daly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Jaggar	Jaggar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	during	during	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	1909	1909	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	_
23	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
32	travelling	travelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	expenses	expense	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Institute	Institute	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Technology	technology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
41	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	expenses	expense	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	_
45	during	during	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	stay	stay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
48	at	at	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	Volcano	Volcano	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
52	devoted	devote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	acl:relcl	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	measurement	measurement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	liquid	liquid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | Day  Dr. |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **send** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Day  Dr. *not said here* | Dr. Shepherd | Kilauea |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shepherd=Theme to kilauea=Destination |
| 3 | **provide** | infinitive | Day  Dr. *not said here* | travelling expenses |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition expense=Theme |
| 4 | **provide** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | the Institute of Technology | instruments and living expenses |  |  | during a stay |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition instrument=Theme |
| 5 | **devote** | past | a stay *not said here* |  |  | the Volcano House |  | to measurement of the temperature of liquid lava *goal* | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent to measurement=Goal |
| 6 | **measure** |  |  | the temperature of liquid lava |  |  |  |  | nom measurement «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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