Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 16
Waiau was another snow-maiden of Mauna Kea, whose record in the legends has been almost entirely forgotten.
Who acts: Waiau · What happens: be, forget · To what, where: snow maiden, record
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Snow-goddess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Waiau), 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 | Waiau | Waiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 maiden | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 maiden | cop |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 maiden | det |
| 4 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 maiden | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 snow | punct |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Mauna | case |
| 8 | Mauna | Mauna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 maiden | nmod |
| 9 | Kea | Kea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mauna | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 record | punct |
| 11 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 12 record | nmod:poss |
| 12 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 forgotten | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 legends | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 legends | det |
| 15 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 record | nmod |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 forgotten | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 18 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 19 entirely | advmod |
| 19 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 20 forgotten | advmod |
| 20 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 maiden | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Waiau | another snow maiden | of Mauna | tree rules | |||
| 2 | forget | present · perfect · passive | record in the legends | entirely property | tree rules |
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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