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title: Man ought to die like the moon which dips in the life-giving waters… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Man ought to die like the moon which dips in the life-giving waters of Kane and is renewed again, or like the sun, which daily sinks into the pit of night and with renewed strength rises in the morning.” Who acts: Man, moon, sun. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui 
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 19

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Man ought to die like the moon which dips in the life-giving waters of Kane and is renewed again, or like the sun, which daily sinks into the pit of night and with renewed strength rises in the morning.”

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**Who acts:** Man, moon, sun · **What happens:** die, dip, give, renew, sink, rise · **To what, where:** pit

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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, moon, sun), 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:pg66357:3:19
# text = Man ought to die like the moon which dips in the life-giving waters of Kane and is renewed again, or like the sun, which daily sinks into the pit of night and with renewed strength rises in the morning.”
1	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	dips	dip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Kane	Kane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	renewed	renew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	sinks	sink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	renewed	renew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	amod	_	_
39	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
40	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | ought | Man |  |  |  |  | like the moon | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **dip** | present | the moon |  |  |  |  | in the giving waters of Kane | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in water=Attribute |
| 3 | **give** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | life *compound* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **renew** | present · passive | the moon *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |
| 5 | **sink** | present | the sun |  |  | the pit of night and renewed strength |  | daily *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **renew** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **rise** | present | the sun |  |  |  | morning |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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