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title: The piers for seismographs were designed for a set of instruments bu… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The piers for seismographs were designed for a set of instruments built in Tokyo in 1910 under the direction of Professor Omori and purchased with the income of the Whitney fund. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Foundation of the Observatory, with its de
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 89

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The piers for seismographs were designed for a set of instruments built in Tokyo in 1910 under the direction of Professor Omori and purchased with the income of the Whitney fund.

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**What happens:** design, build, purchase · **To what, where:** piers, instruments

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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: 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:pg66516:29:89
# text = The piers for seismographs were designed for a set of instruments built in Tokyo in 1910 under the direction of Professor Omori and purchased with the income of the Whitney fund.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	piers	pier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	seismographs	seismograph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	designed	design	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Tokyo	Tokyo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1910	1910	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Professor	Professor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	Omori	Omori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	purchased	purchase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	income	income	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Whitney	Whitney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	fund	fund	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **design** | past · passive |  | the piers for seismographs |  |  |  | for a set of instruments | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for set=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **build** | participle |  | instruments *not said here* |  |  |  | in 1910; under the direction of Professor; in Tokyo | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in tokyo=Attribute |
| 3 | **purchase** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with the income of the Whitney fund | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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