Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 162

Over the long desert isthmus sped the stalwart chiefs on up the divide between the two great mountains, until they saw the valley of the Wai-luku and the ocean waters of the eastern coast.

Who acts: gods · What happens: speed, see · To what, where: stalwart chiefs, long desert isthmus, valley

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gods), 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	Over	over	ADP	_	5 isthmus	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 isthmus	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 isthmus	amod
4	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 isthmus	compound
5	isthmus	isthmus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sped	obl
6	sped	speed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chiefs	det
8	stalwart	stalwart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chiefs	compound
9	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sped	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 divide	case
11	up	up	ADP	_	13 divide	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 divide	det
13	divide	divide	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sped	obl
14	between	between	ADP	_	18 mountains	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mountains	det
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 mountains	nummod
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mountains	amod
18	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 divide	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
20	until	until	SCONJ	_	22 saw	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sped	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 valley	det
24	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 saw	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	29 luku	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 luku	det
27	Wai	Wai	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 luku	nsubj
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 luku	punct
29	luku	luku	X	Foreign=Yes	24 valley	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 waters	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 waters	det
32	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 waters	compound
33	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 saw	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 coast	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 coast	det
36	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 coast	amod
37	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 waters	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speed	past		the stalwart chiefs		the long desert isthmus		on the divide between the two great mountains	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent chief=Theme over isthmus=Initial_Location on divide=Trajectory
2	see	past	gods = god	the valley				the ocean waters of the eastern coast conj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer valley=Stimulus

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 Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (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 Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 162

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 162