Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 28

The fire-rock, breaking through the floor of the ocean to form the Hawaiian chain of islands, lost its power first in the far northwest and cooled and hardened from island to island until it is now making its last appearance on the largest and most southeasterly of all the group, the island known by the name Hawaii.

Who acts: fire rock, rock · What happens: break, form, lose, cool, harden, make · To what, where: floor, Hawaiian chain, power, far northwest, island, last appearance

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Islands. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire rock, rock), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rock	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rock	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 fire	punct
4	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lost	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 breaking	punct
6	breaking	break	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 rock	acl
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 floor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 floor	det
9	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 breaking	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 ocean	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ocean	det
12	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 floor	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 form	mark
14	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 breaking	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 chain	det
16	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 chain	amod
17	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 form	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 islands	case
19	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 chain	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rock	punct
21	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 power	nmod:poss
23	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lost	obj
24	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 lost	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 northwest	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 northwest	det
27	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 northwest	amod
28	northwest	northwest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lost	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cooled	cc
30	cooled	cool	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 northwest	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hardened	cc
32	hardened	harden	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 cooled	conj
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 island	case
34	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hardened	obl
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 island	case
36	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 island	nmod
37	until	until	SCONJ	_	41 making	mark
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 making	nsubj
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 making	aux
40	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 making	advmod
41	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 hardened	advcl
42	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 appearance	nmod:poss
43	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 appearance	amod
44	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 making	obj
45	on	on	ADP	_	47 largest	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 largest	det
47	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	41 making	xcomp
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 southeasterly	cc
49	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	50 southeasterly	advmod
50	southeasterly	southeasterly	ADV	_	47 largest	conj
51	of	of	ADP	_	54 group	case
52	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	54 group	det:predet
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 group	det
54	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 southeasterly	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 island	punct
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 island	det
57	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 group	appos
58	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 island	acl
59	by	by	ADP	_	61 name	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 name	det
61	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 known	obl
62	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	Number=Sing	61 name	appos
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	gerund	the fire rock not said here		the floor of the ocean			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through floor=Location
2	form	to-infinitive	the fire rock not said here	the Hawaiian chain of islands				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chain=Theme
3	lose	past	the fire rock	rock's power	the far northwest		first property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality
4	cool	participle	the fire rock not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	harden	participle	the fire rock not said here		island to island			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	make	present · progressive	rock	rock's last appearance		now	large property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material appearance=Product
7	know	participle		the island not said here			by the name	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 28

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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 28