In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 113
Curious indeed, but enormous by reason of it infinity of tradition and detail.
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 1 Curious | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 enormous | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 enormous | cc |
| 5 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Curious | conj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 reason | case |
| 7 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enormous | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reason | nmod |
| 10 | infinity | infinity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reason | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tradition | case |
| 12 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 infinity | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 detail | cc |
| 14 | detail | detail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tradition | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Curious | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Project Gutenberg book 8128 (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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