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title: After mature deliberation Professor Jaggar concluded that Kilauea af… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: After mature deliberation Professor Jaggar concluded that Kilauea affords the best point for the location of the proposed observatory among those places in the world which have come to his knowledge, for the following reasons: Who acts: Professor, Kilauea, places. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 9

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After mature deliberation Professor Jaggar concluded that Kilauea affords the best point for the location of the proposed observatory among those places in the world which have come to his knowledge, for the following reasons:

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**Who acts:** Professor, Kilauea, places · **What happens:** conclude, afford, propose, come, follow · **To what, where:** best point, knowledge

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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, Kilauea, places), 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:pg66516:29:9
# text = After mature deliberation Professor Jaggar concluded that Kilauea affords the best point for the location of the proposed observatory among those places in the world which have come to his knowledge, for the following reasons:
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	mature	mature	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	deliberation	deliberation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	Professor	Professor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Jaggar	Jaggar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	concluded	conclude	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	affords	afford	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	proposed	propose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	observatory	observatory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	among	among	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	amod	_	_
36	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conclude** | past | Professor |  |  |  | after mature deliberation |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **afford** | present | Kilauea | the best point |  |  |  | for the location of the proposed observatory among that places in the world | tree rules |
| 3 | **propose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | present · perfect | that places in the world |  |  | Kilauea's knowledge |  | for the following reasons | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to knowledge=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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