Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 61
She found this power growing within her as she overcame obstacle after obstacle in the progress of her journey.
Who acts: Hiiaka, power, journey · What happens: find, grow, overcome, progress, journey · To what, where: power, obstacle
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hiiaka, power, journey), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 power | det |
| 4 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 5 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 power | acl |
| 6 | within | within | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 growing | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 overcame | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 overcame | nsubj |
| 10 | overcame | overcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | advcl |
| 11 | obstacle | obstacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 overcame | obj |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 obstacle | case |
| 13 | obstacle | obstacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 overcame | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 progress | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 progress | det |
| 16 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 overcame | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 journey | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 journey | nmod:poss |
| 19 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 progress | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Hiiaka | this power | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Topic | ||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | this power not said here | within Hiiaka | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | overcome | past | Hiiaka | obstacle | after obstacle | in the progress of Hiiaka's journey | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot obstacle=Theme in progress=Attribute | ||
| 4 | progress | Hiiaka's journey | nom progress «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | journey | Hiiaka | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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