Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 33

A gradual ascent by rail and motor-car for about thirty miles brings the visitor to a flat region miles in extent and sparsely covered with giant ferns [23] and shrubs and gray-leaved trees with fringed red balls of flowers.

Who acts: gradual ascent · What happens: bring, cover, fringe · To what, where: visitor

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hawaiian Volcanoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gradual ascent), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ascent	det
2	gradual	gradual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ascent	amod
3	ascent	ascent	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brings	nsubj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 rail	case
5	rail	rail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ascent	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 car	cc
7	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 car	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 motor	punct
9	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rail	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 miles	case
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 thirty	advmod
12	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 miles	nummod
13	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 car	nmod
14	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 visitor	det
16	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brings	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	21 miles	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 miles	det
19	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 miles	amod
20	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 miles	compound
21	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 brings	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 extent	case
23	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 miles	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 covered	cc
25	sparsely	sparsely	ADV	_	26 covered	advmod
26	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 brings	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 ferns	case
28	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ferns	amod
29	ferns	fern	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 covered	obl
30	[	[	PUNCT	_	31 23	punct
31	23	23	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 ferns	appos
32	]	]	PUNCT	_	31 23	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 shrubs	cc
34	shrubs	shrub	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 ferns	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 trees	cc
36	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 trees	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 gray	punct
38	leaved	leaved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 trees	amod
39	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 ferns	conj
40	with	with	ADP	_	43 balls	case
41	fringed	fringe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 balls	amod
42	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 balls	amod
43	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 covered	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 flowers	case
45	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 balls	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 brings	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bring	present	a gradual ascent by rail and motor car for thirty miles	the visitor	to a flat region miles in extent	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent visitor=Theme to mile=Destination
2	cover	participle	a gradual ascent by rail and motor car for thirty miles not said here		with giant ferns and shrubs and gray leaved trees; with fringed red balls of flowers; sparsely property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fern=Theme
3	fringe	participle				tree rules

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), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 33

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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 33