In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 155
“In the burning of incense we see that so long as any incense remains, so long does the burning continue, and the smoke mount skyward.
Who acts: we, incense · What happens: see, remain, do, burn · To what, where: mount skyward, burning, burning continue
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 (we, incense), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 burning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 burning | det |
| 4 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 incense | case |
| 6 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 burning | nmod |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 long | nsubj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 long | advmod |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 see | ccomp |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 remains | mark |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 incense | det |
| 14 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 remains | nsubj |
| 15 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 long | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 long | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 long | advmod |
| 18 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 see | advmod |
| 19 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 long | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 continue | det |
| 21 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 continue | amod |
| 22 | continue | continue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 does | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 skyward | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 skyward | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 skyward | det |
| 26 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 mount | compound |
| 27 | mount | mount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 skyward | compound |
| 28 | skyward | skyward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | we | the mount skyward | the burning of incense | long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | remain in a quote | present | any incense | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | we not said here | the burning continue | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent continue=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | burn in a quote | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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