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title: The committee representative of this association determined to name… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The committee representative of this association determined to name the organization “Hawaiian Volcano Research Association.” Who acts: committee representative. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Foundation of the Observatory, with its dependency tree and
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 75

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The committee representative of this association determined to name the organization “Hawaiian Volcano Research Association.”

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**Who acts:** committee representative · **What happens:** determine, name · **To what, where:** organization

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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 (committee representative), 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:pg66516:29:75
# text = The committee representative of this association determined to name the organization “Hawaiian Volcano Research Association.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	committee	committee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	representative	representative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	association	association	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	name	name	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	organization	organization	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Volcano	Volcano	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	Research	Research	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Association	Association	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | past | the committee representative of this association |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **name** | to-infinitive | the committee representative of this association *not said here* | the organization |  |  |  | Volcano Research Association *obj* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent organization=Theme association=Attribute |

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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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