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title: Kilauea is a great bowl sunken in a plain which seems level but whic… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Kilauea is a great bowl sunken in a plain which seems level but which slopes decidedly toward the large mountain on the one side and the ocean on the other. Who acts: Kilauea, plain. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Changes in Kilauea Crater, with its de
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Changes in Kilauea Crater, sentence 6

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Kilauea is a great bowl sunken in a plain which seems level but which slopes decidedly toward the large mountain on the one side and the ocean on the other.

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**Who acts:** Kilauea, plain · **What happens:** be, seem, slope · **To what, where:** great bowl, level, other

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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 (Kilauea, plain), 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:pg66516:28:6
# text = Kilauea is a great bowl sunken in a plain which seems level but which slopes decidedly toward the large mountain on the one side and the ocean on the other.
1	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	sunken	sunken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	slopes	slope	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	decidedly	decidedly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | a great bowl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **seem** | present | a plain | level |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme level=Attribute |
| 3 | **slope** | present |  |  |  | the other |  | toward the large mountain on the one side and the ocean; which *nsubj*; decidedly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on other=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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