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title: She found this power growing within her as she overcame obstacle aft… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: She found this power growing within her as she overcame obstacle after obstacle in the progress of her journey. Who acts: Hiiaka, power, journey. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 61

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She found this power growing within her as she overcame obstacle after obstacle in the progress of her journey.

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**Who acts:** Hiiaka, power, journey · **What happens:** find, grow, overcome, progress, journey · **To what, where:** power, obstacle

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hiiaka, power, journey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66516:15:61
# text = She found this power growing within her as she overcame obstacle after obstacle in the progress of her journey.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	within	within	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	overcame	overcome	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	obstacle	obstacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	obstacle	obstacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	progress	progress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Hiiaka | this power |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Topic |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund | this power *not said here* |  |  |  |  | within Hiiaka | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **overcome** | past | Hiiaka | obstacle |  |  | after obstacle | in the progress of Hiiaka's journey | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot obstacle=Theme in progress=Attribute |
| 4 | **progress** |  | Hiiaka's journey |  |  |  |  |  | nom progress «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **journey** |  | Hiiaka |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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