Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 35

But if a heavy rain should fall they would know he was not alive and need not restrain their cries.

Who acts: heavy rain, girls, rain · What happens: fall, know, not be, not restrain, cry · To what, where: cries · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka Catching a Ghost. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heavy rain, girls, rain), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 know	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 fall	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rain	det
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rain	amod
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fall	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fall	aux
7	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 know	csubj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 know	aux
10	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 alive	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 alive	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 alive	advmod
14	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 know	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 restrain	cc
16	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 restrain	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 restrain	advmod
18	restrain	restrain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 alive	conj
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 cries	nmod:poss
20	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 restrain	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fall a condition, not said to happen	should	a heavy rain			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	would	girls = girl			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	not is	past	rain		alive property	tree rules
4	not restrain	present	rain not said here	girls's cries		vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer cry=Eventuality
5	cry		girls = girl			nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 35

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 35