Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 72

The floods of lava, obeying the commands of the goddess, spread out over all the land of the chiefs so that from the mountain to the sea the luxuriant lands became desolate.

Who acts: luxuriant lands, lava · What happens: obey, spread out, become, desolate, flood, command · To what, where: commands, floods, land, goddess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (luxuriant lands, lava), 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 floods	det
2	floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 spread	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 lava	case
4	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floods	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 obeying	punct
6	obeying	obey	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 floods	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 commands	det
8	commands	command	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 obeying	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 goddess	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 goddess	det
11	goddess	goddess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 commands	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spread	punct
13	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 spread	compound:prt
15	over	over	ADP	_	18 land	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 land	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 land	det
18	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spread	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 chiefs	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 chiefs	det
21	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 land	nmod
22	so	so	SCONJ	_	23 that	case
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 spread	obl
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 mountain	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mountain	det
26	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spread	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 sea	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sea	det
29	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 mountain	nmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 lands	det
31	luxuriant	luxuriant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lands	amod
32	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 became	nsubj
33	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 spread	parataxis
34	desolate	desolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 became	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	obey	gerund		the commands of the goddess			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme
2	spread out	participle · passive		the floods of lava	all land of the chiefs	so that; from the mountain to the sea	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over land=Destination
3	become	past	the luxuriant lands				tree rules
4	desolate	infinitive	the luxuriant lands not said here				tree rules
5	flood		lava				nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent
6	command			the goddess			nom command «communication transitive»: of=patient

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), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 72

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 72