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title: But she replied: “Let death be very long, that man may sigh and sorr… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: But she replied: “Let death be very long, that man may sigh and sorrow. Who acts: moon, death, man. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui Seeking Immortality, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 15

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But she replied: “Let death be very long, that man may sigh and sorrow.

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**Who acts:** moon, death, man · **What happens:** reply, let, be, sigh, sorrow · **To what, where:** death · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:3:15
# text = But she replied: “Let death be very long, that man may sigh and sorrow.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	sigh	sigh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sorrow	sorrow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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