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title: Kilauea and Mauna Loa form an isolated centre of activity, over 2,00… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Kilauea and Mauna Loa form an isolated centre of activity, over 2,000 miles from the nearest active vent, so that the phenomena of these two vents can be recorded without complications occasioned by other near-by centres. Who acts: Kilauea. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» b
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 15

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Kilauea and Mauna Loa form an isolated centre of activity, over 2,000 miles from the nearest active vent, so that the phenomena of these two vents can be recorded without complications occasioned by other near-by centres.

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**Who acts:** Kilauea · **What happens:** form, record, occasion · **To what, where:** isolated centre, phenomena, complications, centres

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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:pg66516:29:15
# text = Kilauea and Mauna Loa form an isolated centre of activity, over 2,000 miles from the nearest active vent, so that the phenomena of these two vents can be recorded without complications occasioned by other near-by centres.
1	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Mauna	Mauna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	Loa	Loa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	isolated	isolated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	2,000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
18	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	vent	vent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
21	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	31	mark	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	phenomena	phenomena	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
27	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	vents	vent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
32	without	without	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	complications	complication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
34	occasioned	occasion	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	obl	_	_
37	near	near	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	centres	centre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | present | Kilauea and Mauna | a isolated centre of activity and 2,000 miles from the nearest active vent |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location centre=Theme |
| 2 | **record** | can · passive |  | the phenomena of this two vents |  |  |  | without complications | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **occasion** | participle |  | complications *not said here* |  | centres |  | by other | 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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