Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 14
As the moon dies and returns with new strength, so let men die and revive again.”
Who acts: moon, you, men · What happens: die, return, let, revive
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui Seeking Immortality. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, you, men), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 dies | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moon | det |
| 3 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dies | nsubj |
| 4 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 let | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 returns | cc |
| 6 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dies | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 strength | case |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 strength | amod |
| 9 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returns | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 let | advmod |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 die | nsubj |
| 14 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 revive | cc |
| 16 | revive | revive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 let | conj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 revive | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | the moon | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | return | present | the moon not said here | with new strength | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | die | infinitive | men | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | revive | infinitive | you not said here | again | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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 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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