Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 45

For more than a hundred miles she journeyed, usually walking, sometimes having a smooth path, but again having to cross miles of the roughest, most rugged and sharp-edged lava on the island Hawaii.

Who acts: determination · What happens: journey, walk, have, cross, edge · To what, where: smooth path, miles

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (determination), 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	For	for	ADP	_	6 miles	case
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	5 hundred	advmod
3	than	than	ADP	_	2 more	fixed
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hundred	det
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 miles	nummod
6	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 journeyed	obl
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 journeyed	nsubj
8	journeyed	journey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 walking	punct
10	usually	usually	ADV	_	11 walking	advmod
11	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 journeyed	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 having	punct
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 having	advmod
14	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 walking	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 path	det
16	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 path	amod
17	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 having	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 having	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 having	cc
20	again	again	ADV	_	21 having	advmod
21	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 journeyed	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 cross	mark
23	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 having	xcomp
24	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 cross	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 roughest	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 roughest	det
27	roughest	rough	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 miles	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 rugged	punct
29	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 rugged	amod
30	rugged	rugged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 journeyed	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 lava	cc
32	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 lava	amod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 sharp	punct
34	edged	edge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 lava	amod
35	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 rugged	conj
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 island	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 island	det
38	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lava	nmod
39	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 island	appos
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 journeyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	journey	past	determination			for hundred miles	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	gerund	determination not said here			usually property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	gerund	determination not said here	a smooth path		sometimes property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Patient
4	have	gerund	determination not said here		again		tree rules
5	cross	to-infinitive	determination not said here	miles of the roughest			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mile=Patient
6	edge	participle					vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 45

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 45