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title: With the aid of Institute engineers a cableway was designed for span… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: With the aid of Institute engineers a cableway was designed for spanning the inner pit of Halemaumau wherewith by a wire trolley system pyrometric apparatus might be lowered into the lava. Who acts: system pyrometric apparatus. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Weste
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 63

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With the aid of Institute engineers a cableway was designed for spanning the inner pit of Halemaumau wherewith by a wire trolley system pyrometric apparatus might be lowered into the lava.

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**Who acts:** system pyrometric apparatus · **What happens:** design, span, lower · **To what, where:** cableway, inner pit, lava

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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 (system pyrometric apparatus), 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:pg66516:29:63
# text = With the aid of Institute engineers a cableway was designed for spanning the inner pit of Halemaumau wherewith by a wire trolley system pyrometric apparatus might be lowered into the lava.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Institute	Institute	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	engineers	engineer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cableway	cableway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	designed	design	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	spanning	span	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Halemaumau	Halemaumau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	wherewith	wherewith	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
21	wire	wire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	trolley	trolley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	pyrometric	pyrometric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	apparatus	apparatus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	lowered	lower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **design** | past · passive |  | a cableway |  |  |  | with the aid of Institute engineers | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **span** | gerund |  | the inner pit of Halemaumau |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pit=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **lower** | might · passive | a system pyrometric apparatus |  |  | the lava |  | wherewith *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into lava=Destination |

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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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