In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 33
Then the sun climbed with the climbers; and there was no warmth in the light of him, but coldness sharp as a sword.
Who acts: sun · What happens: climb, be, light · To what, where: warmth, light, sun
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 (sun), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 climbed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 climbed | nsubj |
| 4 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 climbers | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 climbers | det |
| 7 | climbers | climber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 climbed | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 warmth | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 was | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 warmth | cop |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 warmth | det |
| 13 | warmth | warmth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 climbed | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 light | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 light | det |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 warmth | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 light | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sharp | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 sharp | cc |
| 21 | coldness | coldness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sharp | compound |
| 22 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 climbed | advcl |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 sword | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 sword | det |
| 25 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sharp | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | the sun | then | with the climbers | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | no warmth | the light of sun | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | light | sun | nom light «phenomenon 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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