--- title: No great explosion, they added, had taken place since the days of Ke… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics description: No great explosion, they added, had taken place since the days of Keoua (a part of whose army was destroyed by a shower of ashes and foul gases in 1790), but many places near the sea had since been overflowed, on which occasions Pele went by a road underground from her house in the crater to the sho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/28/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mytholo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/) / [Changes in Kilauea Crater](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/28/) / 18 # Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Changes in Kilauea Crater, sentence 18 No great explosion, they added, had taken place since the days of Keoua (a part of whose army was destroyed by a shower of ashes and foul gases in 1790), but many places near the sea had since been overflowed, on which occasions Pele went by a road underground from her house in the crater to the shore.” **Who acts:** great explosion, shower, Pele · **What happens:** add, take, destroy, overflow, occasion, go · **To what, where:** place, part, many places, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Changes in Kilauea Crater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great explosion, shower, Pele), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66516:28:18 # text = No great explosion, they added, had taken place since the days of Keoua (a part of whose army was destroyed by a shower of ashes and foul gases in 1790), but many places near the sea had since been overflowed, on which occasions Pele went by a road underground from her house in the crater to the shore.” 1 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 3 det _ _ 2 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 explosion explosion NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 added add VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 ccomp _ _ 10 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 since since ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Keoua Keoua PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 destroyed destroy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 shower shower NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 ashes ash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 foul foul ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 gases gas NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 1790 1790 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 36 but but CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 37 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obl _ _ 39 near near ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 42 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 43 since since ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 44 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 45 aux:pass _ _ 45 overflowed overflow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 47 on on ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 49 nsubj _ _ 49 occasions occasion VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 conj _ _ 50 Pele Pele PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 51 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 ccomp _ _ 52 by by ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ _ 55 underground underground ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 56 from from ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 57 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 58 nmod:poss _ _ 58 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ _ 59 in in ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 crater crater NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ _ 62 to to ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 64 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 65 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 66 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | no great explosion | | | | | explosions *= explosion* *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **take** | past · perfect | | place | | | day | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | | 3 | **destroy** | past · passive | a shower of ashes and foul gases in 1790 | a part of a part of a part's army's army | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 4 | **overflow** | past · perfect · passive | no great explosion *not said here* | many places near the sea | | | | since *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **occasion** | present | | | | | | which *nsubj* | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | past | Pele | | | Pele's house | | by a road; in the crater; to the shore; underground *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from house=Initial\_Location to shore=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/28/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/28/19/) - ↑ back to [Changes in Kilauea Crater](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/28/)