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title: In the year 1832 the pit of Kilauea was full of burning a-a. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: In the year 1832 the pit of Kilauea was full of burning a-a. Who acts: pit. 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 115

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In the year 1832 the pit of Kilauea was full of burning a-a.

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**Who acts:** pit · **What happens:** be, burn · **To what, where:** a

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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 (pit), 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:pg66516:27:115
# text = In the year 1832 the pit of Kilauea was full of burning a-a.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	1832	1832	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	reparandum	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the pit of Kilauea |  |  |  | year | full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **burn** | gerund | the pit of Kilauea *not said here* | a |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent a=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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