In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 62
But she never saw the youth again; and she pined with longing for him, and sickened, and died, and was buried.
Who acts: image · What happens: not see, pine, long, sicken, die, bury · To what, where: youth
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 saw | advmod |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 youth | det |
| 6 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 saw | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 pined | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pined | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pined | nsubj |
| 11 | pined | pine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 12 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 13 longing | mark |
| 13 | longing | long | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 pined | advcl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 longing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sickened | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sickened | cc |
| 18 | sickened | sicken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 pined | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 died | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 died | cc |
| 21 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sickened | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 buried | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 buried | cc |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 buried | aux:pass |
| 25 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past | image | the youth | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | pine | past | image | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | long | gerund | image not said here | for Namu | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sicken | past | image not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | die | past | image not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | bury | past · passive | image not said here | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP» |
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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