Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 24

Hualalai is dormant, although from it there was a great eruption a little over a hundred years ago, and even now possibilities of activity are talked about by those who cultivate sugar-cane and coffee on its lower slopes.

Who acts: Hualalai · What happens: be, talk, cultivate · To what, where: great eruption, possibilities

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hawaiian Volcanoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hualalai), 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	Hualalai	Hualalai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dormant	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dormant	cop
3	dormant	dormant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eruption	punct
5	although	although	SCONJ	_	12 eruption	mark
6	from	from	SCONJ	_	9 was	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 was	nsubj
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 eruption	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 eruption	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 eruption	amod
12	eruption	eruption	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dormant	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 little	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ago	advmod
15	over	over	ADP	_	18 years	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 years	det
17	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 years	nummod
18	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 little	obl
19	ago	ago	ADV	_	12 eruption	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 talked	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 talked	cc
22	even	even	ADV	_	23 now	advmod
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 talked	advmod
24	possibilities	possibility	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 talked	nsubj:pass
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 activity	case
26	activity	activity	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 possibilities	nmod
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 talked	aux:pass
28	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dormant	conj
29	about	about	ADP	_	31 those	case
30	by	by	ADP	_	31 those	case
31	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 talked	obl
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 cultivate	nsubj
33	cultivate	cultivate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 those	acl:relcl
34	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 those	nmod
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 sugar	punct
36	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sugar	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 coffee	cc
38	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sugar	conj
39	on	on	ADP	_	42 slopes	case
40	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 slopes	nmod:poss
41	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	42 slopes	amod
42	slopes	slope	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 those	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dormant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Hualalai			dormant property	tree rules
2	is a	past	Hualalai not said here	a great eruption		ago property	tree rules
3	talk	present · passive		possibilities of activity	now	about those sugar and cane and coffee on One's lower slopes	tree rules
4	cultivate	present				who nsubj	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 24

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 24