Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 72

So he went up through the tangled masses of sharp-edged lava, grass, strong-leaved ferns, and thick woods to meet the chiefess as she came to the crater.

Who acts: Goodrich, Mr. · What happens: go up, edge, meet, come · To what, where: thick woods, tangled masses, chiefess, crater

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 (Goodrich, Mr.), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 went	compound:prt
5	through	through	ADP	_	8 masses	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 masses	det
7	tangled	tangled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 masses	amod
8	masses	mass	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 lava	case
10	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lava	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 sharp	punct
12	edged	edge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 lava	amod
13	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 masses	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grass	punct
15	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lava	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ferns	punct
17	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ferns	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 strong	punct
19	leaved	leaved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ferns	amod
20	ferns	fern	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 masses	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 woods	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 woods	cc
23	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 woods	amod
24	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 meet	mark
26	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 chiefess	det
28	chiefess	chiefess	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 meet	obj
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 came	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 came	nsubj
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	advcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 crater	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 crater	det
34	crater	crater	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 came	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go up	past	Goodrich	thick woods	the tangled masses of sharp edged lava and strong leaved ferns	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	edge	participle				vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
3	meet	to-infinitive	Goodrich not said here	the chiefess		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chiefess=Co-Agent
4	come	past	Mr.		the crater	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to crater=Initial_Location

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 72

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 72