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title: Professor Jaggar had, for some time past, been investigating and con… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Professor Jaggar had, for some time past, been investigating and considering this subject. Who acts: Professor. 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 8

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Professor Jaggar had, for some time past, been investigating and considering this subject.

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**Who acts:** Professor · **What happens:** have, investigate, consider · **To what, where:** time past, subject

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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 (Professor), 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:pg66516:29:8
# text = Professor Jaggar had, for some time past, been investigating and considering this subject.
1	Professor	Professor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Jaggar	Jaggar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux	_	_
11	investigating	investigate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	considering	consider	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Professor | some time past |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent past=Patient |
| 2 | **investigate** | participle · progressive | Professor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **consider** | gerund | Professor *not said here* | this subject |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent subject=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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