Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 23
At present but little more than the name is known about this maiden of the snow-garment.
What happens: know · To what, where: name
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 present | case |
| 2 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 more | cc |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 more | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 present | conj |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 known | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 name | det |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 known | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 known | aux:pass |
| 10 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 more | advcl |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 maiden | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 maiden | det |
| 13 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 known | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 garment | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 garment | det |
| 16 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 garment | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 snow | punct |
| 18 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 maiden | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 present | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · passive | the name | about this maiden of the snow garment | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
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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