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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 28

She dug along the lowlands of Kauai, but water drowned the fires she kindled, so she went from island to island but could only dig along the beach near the sea.

Who acts: Pa, water · What happens: dig, drown, kindle, go · To what, where: lowlands, fires, island, sea

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pa, water), 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

nsubjcasedetoblcasenmodpunctccnsubjconjdetobjnsubjacl:relclpunctadvmodnsubjparataxiscaseoblcaseoblccauxadvmodconjcasedetoblcasedetoblpunctrootShePRONdugVERBalongADPtheDETlowlandsNOUNofADPKauaiPROPN,PUNCTbutCCONJwaterNOUNdrownedVERBtheDETfiresNOUNshePRONkindledVERB,PUNCTsoADVshePRONwentVERBfromADPislandNOUNtoADPislandNOUNbutCCONJcouldAUXonlyADVdigVERBalongADPtheDETbeachNOUNnearADPtheDETseaNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 dugnsubj
2dugdigVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3alongalongADP_5 lowlandscase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 lowlandsdet
5lowlandslowlandNOUNNumber=Plur2 dugobl
6ofofADP_7 Kauaicase
7KauaiKauaiPROPNNumber=Sing5 lowlandsnmod
8,,PUNCT_11 drownedpunct
9butbutCCONJ_11 drownedcc
10waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing11 drownednsubj
11drowneddrownVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 dugconj
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 firesdet
13firesfireNOUNNumber=Plur11 drownedobj
14sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 kindlednsubj
15kindledkindleVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 firesacl:relcl
16,,PUNCT_19 wentpunct
17sosoADV_19 wentadvmod
18sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 wentnsubj
19wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 dugparataxis
20fromfromADP_21 islandcase
21islandislandNOUNNumber=Sing19 wentobl
22totoADP_23 islandcase
23islandislandNOUNNumber=Sing19 wentobl
24butbutCCONJ_27 digcc
25couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin27 digaux
26onlyonlyADV_27 digadvmod
27digdigVERBVerbForm=Inf19 wentconj
28alongalongADP_30 beachcase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 beachdet
30beachbeachNOUNNumber=Sing27 digobl
31nearnearADP_33 seacase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 seadet
33seaseaNOUNNumber=Sing27 digobl
34..PUNCT_2 dugpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1digpastPathe lowlands of Kauaivn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent along lowland=Location
2drownpastwaterthe firesvn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Patient
3kindlepastPathe fires not said herevn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient
4gopastPaislandto islandvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from island=Initial_Location to island=Destination
5digcouldPa not said herethe seaalong the beachvn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent along beach=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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