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title: When man dies let him go into darkness, become like earth, that thos… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. 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 16

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When man dies let him go into darkness, become like earth, that those he leaves behind may weep and wail and mourn.”

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**Who acts:** man, you, those · **What happens:** die, let, go, become, leave behind, weep · **To what, where:** Man, darkness

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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 (man, you, those), 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:pg66357:3:16
# text = When man dies let him go into darkness, become like earth, that those he leaves behind may weep and wail and mourn.”
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	become	become	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	wail	wail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	mourn	mourn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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