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title: Mr. Perret built a wooden camp on the edge of the pit Halemaumau whi… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Perret built a wooden camp on the edge of the pit Halemaumau which he called the Technology Station and where he lived. Who acts: Mr.. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Foundation of the Observatory, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 69

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Mr. Perret built a wooden camp on the edge of the pit Halemaumau which he called the Technology Station and where he lived.

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**Who acts:** Mr. · **What happens:** build, call, live · **To what, where:** wooden camp, edge, Technology Station · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Mr.), 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:pg66516:29:69
# text = Mr. Perret built a wooden camp on the edge of the pit Halemaumau which he called the Technology Station and where he lived.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Perret	Perret	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	Halemaumau	Halemaumau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Technology	Technology	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Station	Station	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | Mr. | a wooden camp |  | the edge of the pit |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent camp=Theme on edge=Source |
| 2 | **call** | past | Mr. | the Technology Station |  |  |  | which *obj* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme station=Result |
| 3 | **live** | past | Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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