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title: Waiau was another snow-maiden of Mauna Kea, whose record in the lege… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Waiau was another snow-maiden of Mauna Kea, whose record in the legends has been almost entirely forgotten. Who acts: Waiau. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Snow-goddess, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 16

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Waiau was another snow-maiden of Mauna Kea, whose record in the legends has been almost entirely forgotten.

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**Who acts:** Waiau · **What happens:** be, forget · **To what, where:** snow maiden, record

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66516:12:16
# text = Waiau was another snow-maiden of Mauna Kea, whose record in the legends has been almost entirely forgotten.
1	Waiau	Waiau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
4	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Mauna	Mauna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	Kea	Kea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
18	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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