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title: Nevertheless, dark clouds many times hang low along the great mounta… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Nevertheless, dark clouds many times hang low along the great mountains and descend in heavy rains, but they dare not stay, lest Maui, the strong, come and hurl them so far away that they cannot come back again. Who acts: dark clouds, clouds. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. West
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 35

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Nevertheless, dark clouds many times hang low along the great mountains and descend in heavy rains, but they dare not stay, lest Maui, the strong, come and hurl them so far away that they cannot come back again.

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**Who acts:** dark clouds, clouds · **What happens:** hang, descend, stay, come, hurl, not come back · **To what, where:** great mountains, heavy rains, clouds

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui the Polynesian. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dark clouds, clouds), 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:pg66357:2:35
# text = Nevertheless, dark clouds many times hang low along the great mountains and descend in heavy rains, but they dare not stay, lest Maui, the strong, come and hurl them so far away that they cannot come back again.
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	hang	hang	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
9	along	along	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	descend	descend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	rains	rain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	dare	dare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
23	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	hurl	hurl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	advmod	_	_
37	away	away	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
43	back	back	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	again	again	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | present | dark clouds and many times |  |  | the great mountains |  | low, nevertheless *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along mountain=Location |
| 2 | **descend** | present | dark clouds and many times *not said here* |  |  | heavy rains |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stay** | present | clouds *= cloud* |  |  |  |  | Maui *parataxis* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | infinitive | clouds *= cloud* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hurl** | infinitive | clouds *= cloud* *not said here* | clouds *= cloud* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **come back** | can | clouds *= cloud* |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (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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