Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 16
When man dies let him go into darkness, become like earth, that those he leaves behind may weep and wail and mourn.”
Who acts: man, you, those · What happens: die, let, go, become, leave behind, weep · To what, where: Man, darkness
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 (man, you, those), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 dies | mark |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dies | nsubj |
| 3 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 let | advcl |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 darkness | case |
| 8 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 become | punct |
| 10 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 let | conj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 earth | case |
| 12 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 become | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 weep | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 weep | mark |
| 15 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 weep | nsubj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 leaves | nsubj |
| 17 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 those | acl:relcl |
| 18 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 17 leaves | advmod |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 weep | aux |
| 20 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wail | cc |
| 22 | wail | wail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 weep | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 mourn | cc |
| 24 | mourn | mourn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 weep | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | man | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | let | imperative | you not said here | Man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | Man not said here | darkness | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into darkness=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | become | infinitive | you not said here | like earth | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | leave behind | present | Man | behind property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | weep | may | those | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | wail | infinitive | those not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | mourn | infinitive | those 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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