Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 38

The company in advance had not proceeded far before the ground began to shake and rock beneath their feet and it became quite impossible to stand.

Who acts: ground, company · What happens: not proceed, begin, shake, become, stand · To what, where: company, feet

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ground, company), 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	2 company	det
2	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 proceeded	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 advance	case
4	advance	advance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 company	nmod
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 proceeded	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 proceeded	advmod
7	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 proceeded	advmod
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 began	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ground	det
11	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 began	nsubj
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 proceeded	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 shake	mark
14	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 rock	cc
16	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shake	conj
17	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	19 feet	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 feet	nmod:poss
19	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shake	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 became	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 became	nsubj
22	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 began	conj
23	quite	quite	ADV	_	24 impossible	advmod
24	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 became	xcomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 stand	mark
26	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 impossible	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 proceeded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not proceed	past · perfect · passive		the company in advance		far property	tree rules
2	begin	past	the ground				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	shake	to-infinitive	the ground not said here		stones's feet	rock conj	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath foot=Location
4	become	past	company			impossible property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	stand	to-infinitive	company not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 38

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 38