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title: Kilauea and Mokuaweoweo are the very wonderful Pele pits (craters) d… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Kilauea and Mokuaweoweo are the very wonderful Pele pits (craters) discharging fire from the very depths of the mountains. Who acts: Kilauea, wonderful Pele pits. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 111

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Kilauea and Mokuaweoweo are the very wonderful Pele pits (craters) discharging fire from the very depths of the mountains.

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**Who acts:** Kilauea, wonderful Pele pits · **What happens:** be, discharge · **To what, where:** wonderful Pele pits, fire, depths

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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 (Kilauea, wonderful Pele pits), 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:pg66516:27:111
# text = Kilauea and Mokuaweoweo are the very wonderful Pele pits (craters) discharging fire from the very depths of the mountains.
1	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Mokuaweoweo	Mokuaweoweo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Pele	pele	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	pits	pit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	craters	crater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	discharging	discharge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
14	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Kilauea and Mokuaweoweo | the wonderful Pele pits |  |  |  | craters *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **discharge** | gerund | the wonderful Pele pits *not said here* | fire |  | the depths of the mountains |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fire=Theme from depth=Source |

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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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