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title: So he went up through the tangled masses of sharp-edged lava, grass,… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: So he went up through the tangled masses of sharp-edged lava, grass, strong-leaved ferns, and thick woods to meet the chiefess as she came to the crater. Who acts: Goodrich, Mr.. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele, with its dependency tr
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 72

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So he went up through the tangled masses of sharp-edged lava, grass, strong-leaved ferns, and thick woods to meet the chiefess as she came to the crater.

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**Who acts:** Goodrich, Mr. · **What happens:** go up, edge, meet, come · **To what, where:** thick woods, tangled masses, chiefess, crater

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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 (Goodrich, Mr.), 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:pg66516:23:72
# text = So he went up through the tangled masses of sharp-edged lava, grass, strong-leaved ferns, and thick woods to meet the chiefess as she came to the crater.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	tangled	tangled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	masses	mass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	edged	edge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	leaved	leaved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ferns	fern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	chiefess	chiefess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	crater	crater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | past | Goodrich | thick woods |  | the tangled masses of sharp edged lava and strong leaved ferns |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **edge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Goodrich *not said here* | the chiefess |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chiefess=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **come** | past | Mr. |  |  | the crater |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to crater=Initial\_Location |

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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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