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title: Mauna Loa (Great or long mountain) has a most interesting active cra… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Mauna Loa (Great or long mountain) has a most interesting active crater on its summit, Mokuaweoweo (Blood-red island), from which enormous rivers of lava are hurled down to the waiting ocean many miles below. Who acts: Mauna. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westerv
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 25

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Mauna Loa (Great or long mountain) has a most interesting active crater on its summit, Mokuaweoweo (Blood-red island), from which enormous rivers of lava are hurled down to the waiting ocean many miles below.

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**Who acts:** Mauna · **What happens:** have, hurl down · **To what, where:** interesting active crater, summit, enormous rivers

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hawaiian Volcanoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mauna), 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:pg66516:26:25
# text = Mauna Loa (Great or long mountain) has a most interesting active crater on its summit, Mokuaweoweo (Blood-red island), from which enormous rivers of lava are hurled down to the waiting ocean many miles below.
1	Mauna	Mauna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	Loa	Loa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	crater	crater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Mokuaweoweo	Mokuaweoweo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Blood	Blood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obl	_	_
29	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	hurled	hurl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
35	down	down	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
42	below	below	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Mauna | a interesting active crater |  | One's summit |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crater=Patient |
| 2 | **hurl down** | present · passive |  | enormous rivers of lava |  | a interesting active crater |  | to the waiting ocean; many miles *obl* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from which=Initial\_Location to ocean=Destination |

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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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