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title: The story of the betrothal and marriage suggests the cold of the sno… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The story of the betrothal and marriage suggests the cold of the snow-mantle and shows the inconstancy of human hearts. Who acts: story. 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 clau
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 28

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The story of the betrothal and marriage suggests the cold of the snow-mantle and shows the inconstancy of human hearts.

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** suggest, show · **To what, where:** cold, inconstancy

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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 (story), 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:pg66516:12:28
# text = The story of the betrothal and marriage suggests the cold of the snow-mantle and shows the inconstancy of human hearts.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	betrothal	betrothal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	suggests	suggest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	inconstancy	inconstancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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