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title: This would appear to be a crisis reached every few centuries, and pe… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 25

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This would appear to be a crisis reached every few centuries, and perhaps dependent on a building up of the mountain by lava to a certain height where the foam column is so confined that it can no longer overflow and so is compelled to explode.

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**Who acts:** This, crisis · **What happens:** appear, be, build, confine, overflow, compel · **To what, where:** foam column

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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 (This, crisis), 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:pg66516:1:25
# text = This would appear to be a crisis reached every few centuries, and perhaps dependent on a building up of the mountain by lava to a certain height where the foam column is so confined that it can no longer overflow and so is compelled to explode.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	crisis	crisis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
10	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	dependent	dependent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	building	build	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	35	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	column	column	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	confined	confine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
38	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
39	no	no	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	41	advmod	_	_
41	overflow	overflow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	so	so	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
44	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	compelled	compel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	explode	explode	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | would | This |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | a crisis |  |  |  | century | reach *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **build** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **confine** | present · passive |  | the foam column |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **overflow** | can | crisis |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **compel** | present · passive | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: clause=Result |
| 7 | **explode** | to-infinitive | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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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