Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 25

He threaded his way through forests of trees and ferns and at last stood on the hills looking down upon the lake of fire.

Who acts: puaa · What happens: thread, stand, look down · To what, where: way, forests, last

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (puaa), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threaded	nsubj
2	threaded	thread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 way	nmod:poss
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threaded	obj
5	through	through	ADP	_	6 forests	case
6	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 threaded	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 trees	case
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 forests	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ferns	cc
10	ferns	fern	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 forests	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stood	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 last	case
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stood	obl
14	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threaded	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 hills	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hills	det
17	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stood	obl
18	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 stood	advcl
19	down	down	ADV	_	18 looking	advmod
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 lake	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 lake	det
22	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looking	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 fire	case
24	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lake	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 threaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	thread	past	puaa	puaa's way	forests of trees and ferns		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
2	stand	past	puaa not said here		last	on the hills	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location
3	look down	gerund	puaa not said here			upon the lake of fire; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon lake=Theme

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 Kama-puaa, sentence 25

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 25