Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 26

Mauna Loa is a much more productive volcano than Kilauea, for its flows have covered a vast territory with new lava within the century past, whereas Kilauea has done much less overflowing.

Who acts: Mauna, Kilauea, crisis · What happens: be, cover, do, overflow, flow · To what, where: productive volcano, flows

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 (Mauna, Kilauea, crisis), 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	Mauna	Mauna	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 volcano	nsubj
2	Loa	Loa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mauna	flat
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 volcano	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 volcano	det
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 productive	advmod
7	productive	productive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 volcano	amod
8	volcano	volcano	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 Kilauea	case
10	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 volcano	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 covered	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 covered	mark
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 flows	nmod:poss
14	flows	flow	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 covered	nsubj:pass
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 covered	aux
16	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 volcano	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 territory	det
18	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 territory	amod
19	territory	territory	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 covered	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 lava	case
21	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lava	amod
22	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 territory	nmod
23	within	within	ADP	_	25 century	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 century	det
25	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 covered	obl
26	past	past	ADV	_	16 covered	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 done	punct
28	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	31 done	mark
29	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 done	nsubj
30	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 done	aux
31	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 covered	conj
32	much	much	ADV	_	33 less	advmod
33	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 overflowing	advmod
34	overflowing	overflow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 done	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 volcano	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mauna	a productive volcano		than Kilauea	tree rules
2	cover	present · perfect · passive		crisis's flows	century	a vast territory obj; past property	tree rules
3	do	present · perfect	Kilauea				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	overflow	gerund	Kilauea not said here			less property	tree rules
5	flow		crisis				nom flow «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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 26

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 26