Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Changes in Kilauea Crater, sentence 30

Now, the fire-pit is but a little over a quarter of a mile in diameter, and yet it has the same form of black ledge which had been built up in the great crater so many years before.

Who acts: fire pit, diameter · What happens: be, have, build up, form · To what, where: quarter, same form, black ledge, great crater

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Changes in Kilauea Crater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire pit, diameter), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 quarter	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pit	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pit	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 fire	punct
6	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 quarter	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 quarter	cop
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 quarter	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 little	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 quarter	obl:unmarked
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 quarter	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 quarter	det
13	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 mile	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 mile	det
16	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 quarter	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 diameter	case
18	diameter	diameter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mile	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 has	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 has	cc
21	yet	yet	ADV	_	23 has	advmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 has	nsubj
23	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 quarter	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 form	det
25	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 form	amod
26	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 has	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 ledge	case
28	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ledge	amod
29	ledge	ledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 form	nmod
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 built	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 built	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 built	aux:pass
33	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 ledge	acl:relcl
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 built	compound:prt
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 crater	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 crater	det
37	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 crater	amod
38	crater	crater	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 built	obl
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 many	advmod
40	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 years	amod
41	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 built	obl:unmarked
42	before	before	ADV	_	41 years	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 quarter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the fire pit		a quarter	now	of a mile in diameter; a little obl:unmarked	tree rules
2	have	present	diameter	the same form of black ledge		yet		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Patient
3	build up	past · perfect · passive		black ledge	the great crater	year		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	form			black ledge				nom form «communication transitive»: of=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), Changes in Kilauea Crater, sentence 30

The tree

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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Changes in Kilauea Crater, sentence 30