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title: That institution was materially aided in the conduct of this work by… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: That institution was materially aided in the conduct of this work by voluntary subscription among citizens of Honolulu. Who acts: voluntary subscription. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Foundation of the Observatory, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 71

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That institution was materially aided in the conduct of this work by voluntary subscription among citizens of Honolulu.

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**Who acts:** voluntary subscription · **What happens:** aid, conduct · **To what, where:** institution, conduct, work

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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 (voluntary subscription), 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:pg66516:29:71
# text = That institution was materially aided in the conduct of this work by voluntary subscription among citizens of Honolulu.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	institution	institution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	materially	materially	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	aided	aid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	voluntary	voluntary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	subscription	subscription	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	among	among	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Honolulu	Honolulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **aid** | past · passive | voluntary subscription | that institution |  | the conduct of this work |  | among citizens of Honolulu; materially *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **conduct** |  |  | this work |  |  |  |  | nom conduct «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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