🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Changes in Kilauea Crater, sentence 33

In 1890, when the writer first saw the home of the fire-goddess, there were three lakes through which eruptive gases burst with explosions like the continual rattle of artillery, and there were two great rivers of lava flowing across the wide, black floor of the vast crater.

Who acts: writer, three lakes, eruptive gases, two great rivers, lava, artillery · What happens: see, be, burst, flow, rattle · To what, where: home, 1890, three lakes, wide black floor

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 (writer, three lakes, eruptive gases, two great rivers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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