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title: This proposal met a most hearty response and within a few days $1,78… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: This proposal met a most hearty response and within a few days $1,785 was subscribed. Who acts: proposal. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Foundation of the Observatory, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 79

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This proposal met a most hearty response and within a few days $1,785 was subscribed.

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**Who acts:** proposal · **What happens:** meet, subscribe · **To what, where:** hearty response

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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 (proposal), 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:pg66516:29:79
# text = This proposal met a most hearty response and within a few days $1,785 was subscribed.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	proposal	proposal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	hearty	hearty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	within	within	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
13	$	$	SYM	$	_	16	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	1,785	1,785	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	subscribed	subscribe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | this proposal | a hearty response |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **subscribe** | past · passive |  |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |

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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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