In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 43
The other, shuddering, repeated:—“I fear!—unutterably I fear!…there is nothing but skulls of men!”
Who acts: other, son, nothing · What happens: shudder, repeat, fear, 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 (other, son, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 other | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 repeated | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 shuddering | punct |
| 4 | shuddering | shudder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 other | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 repeated | punct |
| 6 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 repeated | punct |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 fear | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 fear | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 fear | nsubj |
| 11 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 repeated | conj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 fear | punct |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 fear | punct |
| 14 | unutterably | unutterably | ADV | _ | 16 fear | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 fear | nsubj |
| 16 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 repeated | conj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 fear | punct |
| 18 | … | … | PUNCT | _ | 20 is | punct |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 is | expl |
| 20 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 repeated | parataxis |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 is | nsubj |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 skulls | cc |
| 23 | skulls | skull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 nothing | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 men | case |
| 25 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 skulls | nmod |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 nothing | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shudder | gerund | the other not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | repeat | participle | the other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fear in a quote | present | my son = son | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | fear in a quote | present | my son = son | unutterably property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | present | nothing skulls of men | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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