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title: For more than a hundred miles she journeyed, usually walking, someti… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: For more than a hundred miles she journeyed, usually walking, sometimes having a smooth path, but again having to cross miles of the roughest, most rugged and sharp-edged lava on the island Hawaii. Who acts: determination. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 45

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For more than a hundred miles she journeyed, usually walking, sometimes having a smooth path, but again having to cross miles of the roughest, most rugged and sharp-edged lava on the island Hawaii.

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**Who acts:** determination · **What happens:** journey, walk, have, cross, edge · **To what, where:** smooth path, miles

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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 (determination), 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:pg66516:23:45
# text = For more than a hundred miles she journeyed, usually walking, sometimes having a smooth path, but again having to cross miles of the roughest, most rugged and sharp-edged lava on the island Hawaii.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	5	advmod	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	journeyed	journey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
14	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	roughest	rough	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	amod	_	_
30	rugged	rugged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	edged	edge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **journey** | past | determination |  |  |  |  | for hundred miles | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | gerund | determination *not said here* |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | determination *not said here* | a smooth path |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | gerund | determination *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cross** | to-infinitive | determination *not said here* | miles of the roughest |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mile=Patient |
| 6 | **edge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |

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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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