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title: Kilauea, while displaying great and varied activity, is relatively s… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Kilauea, while displaying great and varied activity, is relatively safe. Who acts: Kilauea. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Foundation of the Observatory, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 12

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Kilauea, while displaying great and varied activity, is relatively safe.

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**Who acts:** Kilauea · **What happens:** display, be · **To what, where:** great activity

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Foundation of the Observatory. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kilauea), 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:pg66516:29:12
# text = Kilauea, while displaying great and varied activity, is relatively safe.
1	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	displaying	display	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	varied	varied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	relatively	relatively	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **display** | gerund | Kilauea *not said here* | great activity |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent activity=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Kilauea |  |  |  |  | relatively, safe *property* | 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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