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title: Everything indicates that Kilauea is older than Mauna Loa. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Everything indicates that Kilauea is older than Mauna Loa. Who acts: Everything, 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 27

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Everything indicates that Kilauea is older than Mauna Loa.

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**Who acts:** Everything, Kilauea · **What happens:** indicate, 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 (Everything, 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:pg66516:1:27
# text = Everything indicates that Kilauea is older than Mauna Loa.
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	indicates	indicate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	advcl	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Mauna	Mauna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Loa	Loa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **indicate** | present | Everything |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is** | present | Kilauea |  |  |  |  | than Mauna Loa; old *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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