In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 60
Sometimes she would pass hours before it,—dreaming and weeping by turns.
Who acts: image · What happens: pass, dream, weep · To what, where: robe
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 (image), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 pass | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pass | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pass | aux |
| 4 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pass | obj |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pass | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pass | punct |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 dreaming | punct |
| 10 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 pass | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 weeping | cc |
| 12 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 dreaming | conj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 turns | case |
| 14 | turns | turn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 weeping | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | would | image | robe | hour | sometimes property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before it=Location | ||
| 2 | dream | gerund | image not said here | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | weep | gerund | image not said here | by turns | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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