In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 128
Even as burns the perfume lending thy robe its fragance, Smoulders my life away, consumed by the pain of longing!
Who acts: perfume · What happens: burn, lend, consume, pain · To what, where: perfume, robe, longing
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: who acts (perfume), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 burns | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 burns | mark |
| 3 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 perfume | det |
| 5 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burns | obj |
| 6 | lending | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 perfume | acl |
| 7 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 robe | nmod:poss |
| 8 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lending | obj |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fragance | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fragance | fragance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 robe | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Smoulders | punct |
| 12 | Smoulders | smoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 burns | obl |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 life | nmod:poss |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Smoulders | nmod |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 burns | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 consumed | punct |
| 17 | consumed | consume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 burns | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 pain | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pain | det |
| 20 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 consumed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 longing | case |
| 22 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pain | nmod |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 burns | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | present | the perfume | Smoulders my life obl; away property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent perfume=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lend | gerund | the perfume not said here | thy robe | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Theme | ||||
| 3 | consume | participle | by the pain of longing | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pain | longing | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient |
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: «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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