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title: “Mauna Loa is the greatest of all the mountains, opening doors for t… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: “Mauna Loa is the greatest of all the mountains, opening doors for the Pele fires from all its sides. Who acts: Mauna, Pele. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 110

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“Mauna Loa is the greatest of all the mountains, opening doors for the Pele fires from all its sides.

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**Who acts:** Mauna, Pele · **What happens:** be, open, fire · **To what, where:** doors, sides

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mauna, Pele), 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:pg66516:27:110
# text = “Mauna Loa is the greatest of all the mountains, opening doors for the Pele fires from all its sides.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mauna	Mauna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Loa	Loa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
13	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	fires	fire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Mauna |  |  |  |  | of all mountains; great *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **open** *in a quote* | gerund | Mauna *not said here* | doors |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 3 | **fire** *in a quote* | present | the Pele |  |  | fire's sides |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from side=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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