Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 61

Dr. Day, director of this laboratory, in correspondence with Professors Daly and Jaggar during the winter of 1909–10 agreed to send Dr. Shepherd to Kilauea and provide travelling expenses if the Institute of Technology would provide instruments and living expenses during a stay at the Volcano House devoted to measurement of the temperature of liquid lava.

Who acts: Day, Institute, stay · What happens: agree, send, provide, devote, measure · To what, where: Dr. Shepherd, Kilauea, travelling expenses, instruments, Volcano House, temperature

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 (Day, Institute, stay), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Day	nmod:desc
2	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 agreed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 director	punct
4	director	director	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Day	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 laboratory	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 laboratory	det
7	laboratory	laboratory	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 director	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 correspondence	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 correspondence	case
10	correspondence	correspondence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Day	appos
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 Daly	case
12	Professors	Professor	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 Daly	nmod:desc
13	Daly	Daly	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 correspondence	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Jaggar	cc
15	Jaggar	Jaggar	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Daly	conj
16	during	during	ADP	_	18 winter	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 winter	det
18	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 correspondence	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 1909	case
20	1909	1909	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 winter	nmod
21	–	–	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	22 10	case
22	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 1909	nmod
23	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	to	to	PART	_	25 send	mark
25	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 agreed	xcomp
26	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Shepherd	compound
27	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 send	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 Kilauea	case
29	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 send	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 provide	cc
31	provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 send	conj
32	travelling	travelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 expenses	compound
33	expenses	expense	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 provide	obj
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 provide	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Institute	det
36	Institute	Institute	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 provide	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 Technology	case
38	Technology	technology	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 Institute	nmod
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 provide	aux
40	provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 provide	advcl
41	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 provide	obj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 expenses	cc
43	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 expenses	amod
44	expenses	expense	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 instruments	conj
45	during	during	ADP	_	47 stay	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 stay	det
47	stay	stay	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 provide	obl
48	at	at	ADP	_	51 House	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 House	det
50	Volcano	Volcano	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 House	compound
51	House	House	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 devoted	obl
52	devoted	devote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 stay	acl:relcl
53	to	to	ADP	_	54 measurement	case
54	measurement	measurement	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 devoted	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 temperature	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 temperature	det
57	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 measurement	nmod
58	of	of	ADP	_	60 lava	case
59	liquid	liquid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 lava	amod
60	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 temperature	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	Day Dr.						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	send not said to happen	to-infinitive	Day Dr. not said here	Dr. Shepherd	Kilauea				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shepherd=Theme to kilauea=Destination
3	provide	infinitive	Day Dr. not said here	travelling expenses					vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition expense=Theme
4	provide a condition, not said to happen	would	the Institute of Technology	instruments and living expenses			during a stay		vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition instrument=Theme
5	devote	past	a stay not said here			the Volcano House		to measurement of the temperature of liquid lava goal	vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent to measurement=Goal
6	measure			the temperature of liquid lava					nom measurement «act transitive»: of=patient

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.

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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 61

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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 61