Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 31

The new mountain has now built itself up to a height almost equal to that of Mauna Kea and probably in a few centuries will begin exploding and heaping up cinder cones just as Mauna Kea did before it finally became extinct.

Who acts: Mauna, mountain · What happens: build up, begin, explode, heap up, do, become · To what, where: new mountain, cinder cones

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, mountain), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mountain	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mountain	amod
3	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 built	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 built	aux
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 built	advmod
6	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 built	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 built	compound:prt
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 height	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 height	det
11	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 built	obl
12	almost	almost	ADV	_	13 equal	advmod
13	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 that	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 that	case
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 height	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 Kea	case
17	Mauna	Mauna	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Kea	compound
18	Kea	Kea	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 that	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 begin	cc
20	probably	probably	ADV	_	26 begin	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 centuries	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 centuries	det
23	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 centuries	amod
24	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 begin	obl
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 begin	aux
26	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 Kea	conj
27	exploding	explode	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 begin	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 heaping	cc
29	heaping	heap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 exploding	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 heaping	compound:prt
31	cinder	cinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cones	compound
32	cones	cone	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 heaping	obj
33	just	just	ADV	_	37 did	advmod
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 did	mark
35	Mauna	Mauna	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 did	nsubj
36	Kea	Kea	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Mauna	flat
37	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 heaping	advcl
38	before	before	SCONJ	_	41 became	mark
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 became	nsubj
40	finally	finally	ADV	_	41 became	advmod
41	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 did	advcl
42	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 became	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	build up	present · perfect · passive		the new mountain	now	to a height to that of Mauna Kea result; mountain obj	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient NP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: subject=Patient itself=Extent to height=Result
2	begin	future			century	probably property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	explode	gerund					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	heap up	gerund		cinder cones			vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cone=Theme
5	do	past	Mauna				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	become	past	mountain			extinct, finally property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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 31

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 31