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title: We know very little about this valley save that its floor is covered… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: We know very little about this valley save that its floor is covered with evidences of volcanic action. Who acts: We, valley. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Islands, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 9

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We know very little about this valley save that its floor is covered with evidences of volcanic action.

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**Who acts:** We, valley · **What happens:** know, save, cover, evidence · **To what, where:** little, floor, volcanic action

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66516:2:9
# text = We know very little about this valley save that its floor is covered with evidences of volcanic action.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obj	_	_
5	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	evidences	evidence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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