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title: The Whitney Laboratory of Seismology, eighteen feet square, is a bas… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The Whitney Laboratory of Seismology, eighteen feet square, is a basement room of concrete floored on the solid ledge of basalt. Who acts: Whitney Laboratory. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Foundation of the Observatory, with its dependency tree and th
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 86

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The Whitney Laboratory of Seismology, eighteen feet square, is a basement room of concrete floored on the solid ledge of basalt.

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**Who acts:** Whitney Laboratory · **What happens:** be, floor · **To what, where:** basement room, solid ledge

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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 (Whitney Laboratory), 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:pg66516:29:86
# text = The Whitney Laboratory of Seismology, eighteen feet square, is a basement room of concrete floored on the solid ledge of basalt.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Whitney	Whitney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Laboratory	Laboratory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Seismology	seismology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	basement	basement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	concrete	concrete	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	floored	floor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ledge	ledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	basalt	basalt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Whitney Laboratory of Seismology | a basement room |  |  |  | of concrete | tree rules |
| 2 | **floor** | participle |  | a basement room *not said here* |  | the solid ledge of basalt |  |  | 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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