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title: Ka Lua Pele, the “Pit of Pele,” is at present on a small scale what… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Ka Lua Pele, the “Pit of Pele,” is at present on a small scale what the crater of Kilauea was in its magnitude in 1823 and for many years thereafter. Who acts: Ka, crater. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Changes in Kilauea Crater, with its dependency tr
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Changes in Kilauea Crater, sentence 35

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Ka Lua Pele, the “Pit of Pele,” is at present on a small scale what the crater of Kilauea was in its magnitude in 1823 and for many years thereafter.

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**Who acts:** Ka, crater · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** present, magnitude

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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 (Ka, crater), 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:pg66516:28:35
# text = Ka Lua Pele, the “Pit of Pele,” is at present on a small scale what the crater of Kilauea was in its magnitude in 1823 and for many years thereafter.
1	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
2	Lua	Lua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	crater	crater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	magnitude	magnitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	acl:relcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	1823	1823	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
34	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Ka |  |  | present |  | on a small scale  present | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the crater of Kilauea |  |  | crater's magnitude and many years |  | in 1823 | tree rules |

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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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