Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Changes in Kilauea Crater, sentence 35
Ka Lua Pele, the “Pit of Pele,” is at present on a small scale what the crater of Kilauea was in its magnitude in 1823 and for many years thereafter.
Who acts: Ka, crater · What happens: be · To what, where: present, magnitude
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 (Ka, crater), 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 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 present | nsubj |
| 2 | Lua | Lua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ka | flat |
| 3 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ka | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Pit | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Pit | det |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Pit | punct |
| 7 | Pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ka | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Pele | case |
| 9 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Pit | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Pit | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Pit | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 present | cop |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 present | case |
| 14 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 scale | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 scale | det |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 scale | amod |
| 18 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 present | nmod |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 scale | nmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 crater | det |
| 21 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 magnitude | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Kilauea | case |
| 23 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 crater | nmod |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 magnitude | cop |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 magnitude | case |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 magnitude | nmod:poss |
| 27 | magnitude | magnitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 what | acl:relcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 1823 | case |
| 29 | 1823 | 1823 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 magnitude | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 years | cc |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 years | case |
| 32 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 years | amod |
| 33 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 magnitude | conj |
| 34 | thereafter | thereafter | ADV | _ | 33 years | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 present | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Ka | present | on a small scale present | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | the crater of Kilauea | crater's magnitude and many years | in 1823 | tree rules |
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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