In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 97
I do not see the opening through which the radiance pours, but I am aware that it is a small window shaped in the outline-form of a temple-bell.
Who acts: I, radiance · What happens: not see, pour, be, shape, form · To what, where: opening, small window, outline form, temple bell
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 (I, radiance), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 see | advmod |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 opening | det |
| 6 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 pours | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 radiance | det |
| 10 | radiance | radiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pours | nsubj |
| 11 | pours | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 aware | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 aware | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 aware | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 aware | cop |
| 16 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 see | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 window | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 window | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 window | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 window | det |
| 21 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 window | amod |
| 22 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 aware | obl |
| 23 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 window | acl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 form | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 form | det |
| 26 | outline | outline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 form | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 outline | punct |
| 28 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shaped | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 bell | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 bell | det |
| 31 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bell | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 temple | punct |
| 33 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 form | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | present · do-support | I | the opening | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer opening=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | pour | present | the radiance | which obl | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through which=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | I | aware property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | radiance | a small window | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | shape | participle | a small window not said here | the outline form of a temple bell | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 6 | form | a temple bell | nom form «communication 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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