In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 18
“Do not fear, my son,” said the Bodhisattva, guiding: “danger there is none, though the way be grim.”
Who acts: Bodhisattva, way · What happens: not fear, say, guide, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Bodhisattva, way), 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 | _ | 4 fear | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 fear | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 fear | advmod |
| 4 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fear | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fear | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fear | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Bodhisattva | det |
| 12 | Bodhisattva | Bodhisattva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 guiding | punct |
| 14 | guiding | guide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 Bodhisattva | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 is | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 danger | punct |
| 17 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 is | obl |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 is | expl |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 grim | cop |
| 20 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 19 is | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 grim | punct |
| 22 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 26 grim | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 way | det |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 grim | nsubj |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 grim | cop |
| 26 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 grim | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 grim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fear in a quote | infinitive · do-support | my son vocative | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Bodhisattva | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | guide | gerund | the Bodhisattva not said here | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the way | grim property | 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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