In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 156
Now the breath of this body of ours,—this impermanent combination of Earth, Water, Air, and Fire,—is like that smoke.
What happens: be · To what, where: breath
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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 breath | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 breath | det |
| 3 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 body | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 body | det |
| 6 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 breath | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ours | case |
| 8 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 body | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 breath | punct |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 combination | punct |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 combination | det |
| 12 | impermanent | impermanent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 combination | amod |
| 13 | combination | combination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 breath | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Earth | case |
| 15 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 combination | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Water | punct |
| 17 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 combination | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Air | punct |
| 19 | Air | Air | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Water | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Fire | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Fire | cc |
| 22 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Water | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 smoke | punct |
| 24 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 smoke | punct |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 smoke | cop |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 smoke | case |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 smoke | det |
| 28 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 combination | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 breath | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | like that smoke | tree rules |
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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