Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 87
Let the heavens fall on the earth, Let the heavens roll open for the rain, Let the storm come.”
Who acts: you, heavens, storm · What happens: let, fall, roll, come · To what, where: earth, storm
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, heavens, storm), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heavens | det |
| 3 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fall | nsubj |
| 4 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 earth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 earth | det |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fall | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Let | punct |
| 9 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 heavens | det |
| 11 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 roll | nsubj |
| 12 | roll | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Let | ccomp |
| 13 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 roll | xcomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 rain | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rain | det |
| 16 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 open | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Let | punct |
| 18 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 storm | det |
| 20 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Let | obj |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Let | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fall | present | the heavens | the earth | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on earth=Location | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | roll | present | the heavens | open property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | let | infinitive | you not said here | the storm | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | come | infinitive | the storm not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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