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title: It is, however, a cone ascending gradually to the fire-pit from thes… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: It is, however, a cone ascending gradually to the fire-pit from these precipitous edges of the bowl. Who acts: lake, cone. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hawaiian Volcanoes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 38

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It is, however, a cone ascending gradually to the fire-pit from these precipitous edges of the bowl.

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**Who acts:** lake, cone · **What happens:** be, ascend · **To what, where:** cone, fire pit

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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 (lake, cone), 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:pg66516:26:38
# text = It is, however, a cone ascending gradually to the fire-pit from these precipitous edges of the bowl.
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	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cone	cone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	ascending	ascend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	precipitous	precipitous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | lake | a cone |  |  |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ascend** | gerund | a cone *not said here* |  |  | the fire pit from this precipitous edges of the bowl |  | gradually *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to pit=Initial\_Location |

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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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