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title: The Institute was prepared to co-operate with the Hawaiian Volcano R… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The Institute was prepared to co-operate with the Hawaiian Volcano Research Association by becoming its largest subscriber for the five years, through the income of the Whitney fund and the current payment to its Seismological fund. Who acts: treasurer. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 77

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The Institute was prepared to co-operate with the Hawaiian Volcano Research Association by becoming its largest subscriber for the five years, through the income of the Whitney fund and the current payment to its Seismological fund.

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**Who acts:** treasurer · **What happens:** prepare, co-operate, become, fund · **To what, where:** Institute, largest subscriber

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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 (treasurer), 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:pg66516:29:77
# text = The Institute was prepared to co-operate with the Hawaiian Volcano Research Association by becoming its largest subscriber for the five years, through the income of the Whitney fund and the current payment to its Seismological fund.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Institute	Institute	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	co-operate	co-operate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Volcano	Volcano	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	Research	Research	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Association	Association	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	subscriber	subscriber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	income	income	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Whitney	Whitney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	fund	fund	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	current	current	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	payment	payment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	Seismological	seismological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	fund	fund	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** | past · passive |  | the Institute |  |  |  | the income of the Whitney fund and the current payment to treasurer's Seismological fund *conj* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **co-operate** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with the Volcano Research Association | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | gerund |  | treasurer's largest subscriber |  |  | year |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **fund** |  | treasurer |  |  |  |  |  | nom fund «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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