Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 20

Sometimes when the holua track was worn close down to the earth, grass, rushes, and even leaves, were carefully strewn over the ground to make easy gliding for the polished runners.

Who acts: earth · What happens: wear, rush, strewn, make, glide, polish · To what, where: holua track, leaves, ground

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 worn	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 worn	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 track	det
4	holua	holua	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 track	compound
5	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worn	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 worn	aux:pass
7	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 down	advmod
9	down	down	ADV	_	7 worn	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 earth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 earth	det
12	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worn	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grass	punct
14	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 earth	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rushes	punct
16	rushes	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 earth	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 strewn	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 strewn	cc
19	even	even	ADV	_	20 leaves	advmod
20	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 strewn	nsubj:pass
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 leaves	punct
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 strewn	aux:pass
23	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	24 strewn	advmod
24	strewn	strewn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 worn	conj
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 ground	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ground	det
27	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 strewn	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 make	mark
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 strewn	advcl
30	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 make	xcomp
31	gliding	glide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 easy	advcl
32	for	for	ADP	_	35 runners	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 runners	det
34	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 runners	amod
35	runners	runner	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 gliding	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 worn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wear	past · passive		the holua track		to the earth and grass; down, sometimes property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
2	rush	present	the earth and grass not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	strewn	past · passive		leaves	the ground	carefully property	tree rules
4	make	to-infinitive				easy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	glide	gerund				for the polished runners	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	polish	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 20