--- title: It is a precipice-walled bowl, three miles across, with a multitude… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics description: It is a precipice-walled bowl, three miles across, with a multitude of steam jets breaking through its vast floor and a great cloud of smoke rising from a pit in a black border-land of frozen lava. Who acts: car, steam jets, great cloud. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/26/36/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mytholo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/) / [Hawaiian Volcanoes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/26/) / 36 # Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 36 It is a precipice-walled bowl, three miles across, with a multitude of steam jets breaking through its vast floor and a great cloud of smoke rising from a pit in a black border-land of frozen lava. **Who acts:** car, steam jets, great cloud · **What happens:** wall, be, break, rise, freeze, cloud · **To what, where:** walled bowl, vast floor, pit, smoke 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 (car, steam jets, great cloud), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66516:26:36 # text = It is a precipice-walled bowl, three miles across, with a multitude of steam jets breaking through its vast floor and a great cloud of smoke rising from a pit in a black border-land of frozen lava. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 4 precipice precipice NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 walled wall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 7 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 11 across across ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 multitude multitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 jets jet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 breaking break VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 20 through through ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 vast vast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 rising rise VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 pit pit NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 36 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 37 border border NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 amod _ _ 42 lava lava NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wall** | participle | | | | | | precipice *compound* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | car | a walled bowl and three miles and a multitude of steam jets and a great cloud of smoke | | | | three miles *conj*; a multitude of steam jets and a great cloud of smoke *conj* | tree rules | | 3 | **break** | gerund | steam jets *not said here* | | | car's vast floor | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through floor=Location | | 4 | **rise** | gerund | a great cloud of smoke *not said here* | | | a pit | | in a black border land of frozen lava | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in land=Location | | 5 | **freeze** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **cloud** | | | smoke | | | | | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/26/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/26/37/) - ↑ back to [Hawaiian Volcanoes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/26/)