Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 15
But she replied: “Let death be very long, that man may sigh and sorrow.
Who acts: moon, death, man · What happens: reply, let, be, sigh, sorrow · To what, where: death · Speech: someone speaks here
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, death, man), 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 | _ | 3 replied | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Let | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Let | punct |
| 6 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Let | obj |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 long | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 long | advmod |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Let | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sigh | punct |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sigh | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 sigh | aux |
| 15 | sigh | sigh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Let | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sorrow | cc |
| 17 | sorrow | sorrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sigh | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | moon | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | death | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | infinitive | death not said here | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sigh in a quote | may | that man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | sorrow in a quote | infinitive | that man not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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