In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 17
Surely this fact of composition as ethical practice has larger interest than all the treatises ever written about the rules of Japanese prosody.
Who acts: fact, Japanese prosody · What happens: have, write, rule · To what, where: larger interest, treatises
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fact, Japanese prosody), 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 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 3 fact | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 fact | det |
| 3 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 composition | case |
| 5 | composition | composition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fact | nmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 practice | case |
| 7 | ethical | ethical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 practice | amod |
| 8 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fact | nmod |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 interest | amod |
| 11 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | obj |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 treatises | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 treatises | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 treatises | det |
| 15 | treatises | treatise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 interest | nmod |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 written | advmod |
| 17 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 treatises | acl |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 rules | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rules | det |
| 20 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 written | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 prosody | case |
| 22 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 prosody | amod |
| 23 | prosody | prosody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rules | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | this fact of composition as ethical practice | larger interest | than all treatises | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Patient | |||
| 2 | write | participle | all treatises not said here | ever | about the rules of Japanese prosody | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about rule=Topic | |||
| 3 | rule | Japanese prosody | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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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