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title: From this volcano Kilauea, and the crater Mokuaweoweo, which lies li… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: From this volcano Kilauea, and the crater Mokuaweoweo, which lies like an island in the top of Mauna Loa, nearly 10,000 feet higher, come enormous and sometimes destructive lava flows. Who acts: crater Mokuaweoweo, destructive lava. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 40

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From this volcano Kilauea, and the crater Mokuaweoweo, which lies like an island in the top of Mauna Loa, nearly 10,000 feet higher, come enormous and sometimes destructive lava flows.

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**Who acts:** crater Mokuaweoweo, destructive lava · **What happens:** lie, come, flow · **To what, where:** top, volcano

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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 (crater Mokuaweoweo, destructive lava), 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:pg66516:26:40
# text = From this volcano Kilauea, and the crater Mokuaweoweo, which lies like an island in the top of Mauna Loa, nearly 10,000 feet higher, come enormous and sometimes destructive lava flows.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	volcano	volcano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	crater	crater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Mokuaweoweo	Mokuaweoweo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Mauna	Mauna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	Loa	Loa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
28	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
29	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	34	advmod	_	_
32	destructive	destructive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	flows	flow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | the crater Mokuaweoweo |  |  | the top of Mauna |  | like a island | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in top=Location |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | the crater Mokuaweoweo |  |  |  |  | enormous *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **flow** | present | destructive lava |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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