In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 88
Many men loved her in vain; and many are said to have died for love of her.
Who acts: Many men · What happens: love, say, die · To what, where: Komachi, vain, many · 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 (Many men), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 men | amod |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 loved | nsubj |
| 3 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 loved | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 vain | case |
| 6 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 loved | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | aux:pass |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 loved | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 died | mark |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 died | aux |
| 14 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | xcomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 love | case |
| 16 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 died | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 love | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | Many men | Komachi | vain | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present · passive | many | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | die | to-infinitive · perfect | for love of Komachi | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for love=Theme | |||||
| 4 | love | Komachi | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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