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title: The study of geophysics and geochemistry in the field is so extensiv… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The study of geophysics and geochemistry in the field is so extensive and inclusive a department of science that no resident staff could hope to cover the whole field without large expense and a very large working force. Who acts: study, resident staff. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 96

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The study of geophysics and geochemistry in the field is so extensive and inclusive a department of science that no resident staff could hope to cover the whole field without large expense and a very large working force.

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**Who acts:** study, resident staff · **What happens:** be, hope, cover, work, study · **To what, where:** department, whole field, geophysics

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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 (study, resident staff), 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:pg66516:29:96
# text = The study of geophysics and geochemistry in the field is so extensive and inclusive a department of science that no resident staff could hope to cover the whole field without large expense and a very large working force.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	geophysics	geophysics	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	geochemistry	geochemistry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	extensive	extensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	inclusive	inclusive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	department	department	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
21	resident	resident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	hope	hope	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	without	without	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	expense	expense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
35	very	very	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	amod	_	_
38	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the study of geophysics and geochemistry in the field |  |  |  |  | a department of science *nsubj*; extensive *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the study of geophysics and geochemistry in the field *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hope** | could | no resident staff | a department of science |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cover** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | no resident staff *not said here* | the whole field |  |  |  | without large expense and a large working force | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme field=Destination |
| 5 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **study** |  |  | geophysics and geochemistry in the field |  |  |  |  | nom study «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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