In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 99
Often when I smell incense, this vision defines; and usually thereafter other sensations of my first day in Japan revive in swift succession with almost painful acuteness.
Who acts: I, vision, other sensations · What happens: smell, define, revive, sense · To what, where: incense, swift succession, first day
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, vision, other sensations), 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 | Often | often | ADV | _ | 2 when | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 smell | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 smell | nsubj |
| 4 | smell | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 defines | advcl |
| 5 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smell | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 smell | punct |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 vision | det |
| 8 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 defines | nsubj |
| 9 | defines | define | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 revive | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sensations | cc |
| 12 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 13 thereafter | advmod |
| 13 | thereafter | thereafter | ADV | _ | 15 sensations | advmod |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sensations | amod |
| 15 | sensations | sensation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 revive | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 day | nmod:poss |
| 18 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 day | amod |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sensations | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Japan | case |
| 21 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 day | nmod |
| 22 | revive | revive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 defines | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 succession | case |
| 24 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 succession | amod |
| 25 | succession | succession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 revive | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 acuteness | case |
| 27 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 28 painful | advmod |
| 28 | painful | painful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 acuteness | amod |
| 29 | acuteness | acuteness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 revive | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 defines | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smell | present | I | incense | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer incense=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | define | present | this vision | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | revive | present | other sensations of my first day in Japan | swift succession | with painful acuteness | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with acuteness=Instrument | |||
| 4 | sense | my first day in Japan | nom sensation «cognition 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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