Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 19

It is clear that heat and gas action are the motive agents which make volcanoes so lively, so much so that simultaneously Mauna Loa and Kilauea may maintain liquid columns of lava at two different elevations ten thousand feet apart.

Who acts: heat, motive agents, Mauna Loa · What happens: be, make, maintain · To what, where: motive agents, volcanoes, liquid columns, two different elevations

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heat, motive agents, Mauna Loa), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 clear	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 clear	cop
3	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 agents	mark
5	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 agents	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 action	cc
7	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 action	compound
8	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heat	conj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 agents	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 agents	det
11	motive	motive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 agents	amod
12	agents	agent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 clear	parataxis
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 make	nsubj
14	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 agents	acl:relcl
15	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 make	obj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 lively	advmod
17	lively	lively	ADV	_	14 make	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 much	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADV	_	3 clear	advmod
21	so	so	SCONJ	_	29 maintain	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 maintain	mark
23	simultaneously	simultaneously	ADV	_	25 Loa	advmod
24	Mauna	Mauna	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Loa	compound
25	Loa	Loa	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 maintain	nsubj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Kilauea	cc
27	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Loa	conj
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 maintain	aux
29	maintain	maintain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 much	advcl
30	liquid	liquid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 columns	amod
31	columns	column	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 maintain	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 lava	case
33	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 columns	nmod
34	at	at	ADP	_	37 elevations	case
35	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 elevations	nummod
36	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 elevations	amod
37	elevations	elevation	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 maintain	obl
38	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 thousand	compound
39	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 feet	nummod
40	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 elevations	conj
41	apart	apart	ADV	_	29 maintain	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 clear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present				clear property	tree rules
2	is a	present	heat and gas action	the motive agents			tree rules
3	make	present	the motive agents	volcanoes		lively property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset volcano=Product
4	maintain	may	Mauna Loa and Kilauea	liquid columns of lava	two different elevations and thousand feet	apart property	vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent column=Theme

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.

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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 19