Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 9
We know very little about this valley save that its floor is covered with evidences of volcanic action.
Who acts: We, valley · What happens: know, save, cover, evidence · To what, where: little, floor, volcanic action
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Islands. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, valley), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 little | advmod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 know | obj |
| 5 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 8 save | mark |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 valley | det |
| 7 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 save | nsubj |
| 8 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 little | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 covered | mark |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 floor | nmod:poss |
| 11 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 covered | aux:pass |
| 13 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 save | advcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 evidences | case |
| 15 | evidences | evidence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 covered | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 action | case |
| 17 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 action | amod |
| 18 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 evidences | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | We | little | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | save | infinitive | this valley | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cover | present · passive | valley's floor | with evidences of volcanic action | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with evidence=Theme | ||||
| 4 | evidence | volcanic action | nom evidence «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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