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title: Mauna Loa is a much more productive volcano than Kilauea, for its fl… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Mauna Loa is a much more productive volcano than Kilauea, for its flows have covered a vast territory with new lava within the century past, whereas Kilauea has done much less overflowing. Who acts: Mauna, Kilauea, crisis. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 26

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Mauna Loa is a much more productive volcano than Kilauea, for its flows have covered a vast territory with new lava within the century past, whereas Kilauea has done much less overflowing.

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**Who acts:** Mauna, Kilauea, crisis · **What happens:** be, cover, do, overflow, flow · **To what, where:** productive volcano, flows

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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 (Mauna, Kilauea, 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:pg66516:1:26
# text = Mauna Loa is a much more productive volcano than Kilauea, for its flows have covered a vast territory with new lava within the century past, whereas Kilauea has done much less overflowing.
1	Mauna	Mauna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	Loa	Loa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	productive	productive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	volcano	volcano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	flows	flow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	within	within	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
26	past	past	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
32	much	much	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	34	advmod	_	_
34	overflowing	overflow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Mauna | a productive volcano |  |  |  | than Kilauea | tree rules |
| 2 | **cover** | present · perfect · passive |  | crisis's flows |  |  | century | a vast territory *obj*; past *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | present · perfect | Kilauea |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **overflow** | gerund | Kilauea *not said here* |  |  |  |  | less *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **flow** |  | crisis |  |  |  |  |  | nom flow «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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