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title: A. Perret of Springfield, Mass., and Naples, Italy, to take Professo… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: A. Perret of Springfield, Mass., and Naples, Italy, to take Professor Jaggar’s place in an expedition to Kilauea for the measurement of temperatures as agreed with the Carnegie Geophysical Laboratory. Who acts: Naples. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Fo
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 66

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A. Perret of Springfield, Mass., and Naples, Italy, to take Professor Jaggar’s place in an expedition to Kilauea for the measurement of temperatures as agreed with the Carnegie Geophysical Laboratory.

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**Who acts:** Naples · **What happens:** take, agree, measure · **To what, where:** place, expedition, A. Perret, temperatures

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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 (Naples), 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:pg66516:29:66
# text = A. Perret of Springfield, Mass., and Naples, Italy, to take Professor Jaggar’s place in an expedition to Kilauea for the measurement of temperatures as agreed with the Carnegie Geophysical Laboratory.
1	A.	A.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Perret	Perret	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Springfield	Springfield	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Mass	Mass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	Naples	Naples	PROPN	NNP	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
16	Professor	Professor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	Jaggar	Jaggar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
19	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	expedition	expedition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	measurement	measurement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	temperatures	temperature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	Carnegie	Carnegie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
35	Geophysical	Geophysical	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Laboratory	Laboratory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | to-infinitive | Naples and Italy | Professor's place |  | a expedition to Kilauea for the measurement of temperatures |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in expedition=Location |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | participle | Naples and Italy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the Carnegie Geophysical Laboratory | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with laboratory=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **measure** |  |  | temperatures |  |  |  |  | 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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