Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 28
The story of the betrothal and marriage suggests the cold of the snow-mantle and shows the inconstancy of human hearts.
Who acts: story · What happens: suggest, show · To what, where: cold, inconstancy
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 (story), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 suggests | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 betrothal | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 betrothal | det |
| 5 | betrothal | betrothal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 story | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 marriage | cc |
| 7 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 betrothal | conj |
| 8 | suggests | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cold | det |
| 10 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 suggests | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 mantle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mantle | det |
| 13 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mantle | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 snow | punct |
| 15 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cold | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 shows | cc |
| 17 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 suggests | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 inconstancy | det |
| 19 | inconstancy | inconstancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shows | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 hearts | case |
| 21 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hearts | amod |
| 22 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 inconstancy | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 suggests | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | present | the story of the betrothal and marriage | the cold of the snow mantle | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cold=Topic | ||||
| 2 | show | present | the story of the betrothal and marriage not said here | the inconstancy of human hearts | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent inconstancy=Recipient |
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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