In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 42
“And yet, my son,” said the Bodhisattva, laughing softly,—“and yet you do not know of what this mountain is made.”
Who acts: son, you · What happens: say, laugh, not know, make · To what, where: mountain · 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 (son, you), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 son | cc |
| 3 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 son | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 yet | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Bodhisattva | det |
| 11 | Bodhisattva | Bodhisattva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 laughing | punct |
| 13 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 said | advcl |
| 14 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 13 laughing | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 know | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 yet | cc |
| 19 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 23 know | advmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 know | nsubj |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 know | advmod |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 what | case |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 know | obl |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 mountain | det |
| 27 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 made | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 made | aux:pass |
| 29 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 what | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 know | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | my son | the Bodhisattva nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | my son not said here | softly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | you | yet | what obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of what=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | make in a quote | present · passive | this mountain | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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