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title: Let the heavens fall on the earth, Let the heavens roll open for the… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Let the heavens fall on the earth, Let the heavens roll open for the rain, Let the storm come.” Who acts: you, heavens, storm. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 87

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Let the heavens fall on the earth, Let the heavens roll open for the rain, Let the storm come.”

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**Who acts:** you, heavens, storm · **What happens:** let, fall, roll, come · **To what, where:** earth, storm

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66516:11:87
# text = Let the heavens fall on the earth, Let the heavens roll open for the rain, Let the storm come.”
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	roll	roll	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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