In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 46
Each has at some time been the nest of your dreams and delusions and desires.
Who acts: Each, some, your · What happens: have, be, dream · To what, where: nest
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 (Each, some, your), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 nest | case |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 nest | nsubj |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nest | nsubj |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 nest | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 nest | det |
| 8 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 dreams | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 nest | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 delusions | cc |
| 13 | delusions | delusion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dreams | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 desires | cc |
| 15 | desires | desire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dreams | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Each | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | participle | some | the nest | of your dreams and delusions and desires | tree rules | |||
| 3 | dream | your | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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