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title: But even Kilauea is not guiltless of terrific and destructive explos… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: But even Kilauea is not guiltless of terrific and destructive explosive eruption. Who acts: Kilauea. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 23

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But even Kilauea is not guiltless of terrific and destructive explosive eruption.

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**Who acts:** Kilauea · **What happens:** not be

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kilauea), 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:pg66516:1:23
# text = But even Kilauea is not guiltless of terrific and destructive explosive eruption.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	guiltless	guiltless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	terrific	terrific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	destructive	destructive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	explosive	explosive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	eruption	eruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Kilauea |  |  |  |  | of terrific explosive eruption; guiltless *property* | 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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