In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 41
Before me and about me there is nothing but skulls of men.”
Who acts: nothing · What happens: be
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 (nothing), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 2 me | case |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 is | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 me | cc |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 me | conj |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 is | expl |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 is | nsubj |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 skulls | cc |
| 10 | skulls | skull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 nothing | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 men | case |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 skulls | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | nothing skulls of men | there | before me | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before i=Location |
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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