In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 20
By the use of a few chosen words the composer of a short poem endeavors to do exactly what the painter endeavors to do with a few strokes of the brush,—to evoke an image or a mood,—to revive a sensation or an emotion.
What happens: choose, do, evoke, revive, use, stroke · To what, where: short poem endeavors, painter endeavors, image, sensation, few chosen words, brush
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: 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 use | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 use | det |
| 3 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 words | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 words | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 words | amod |
| 7 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 words | amod |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | nmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 composer | det |
| 10 | composer | composer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 use | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 endeavors | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 endeavors | det |
| 13 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 endeavors | amod |
| 14 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 endeavors | compound |
| 15 | endeavors | endeavor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 composer | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 endeavors | acl |
| 18 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 19 what | advmod |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 do | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 endeavors | det |
| 21 | painter | painter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 endeavors | compound |
| 22 | endeavors | endeavor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 what | nsubj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 endeavors | acl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 strokes | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 strokes | det |
| 27 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 strokes | amod |
| 28 | strokes | stroke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 do | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 brush | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 brush | det |
| 31 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 strokes | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 evoke | punct |
| 33 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 evoke | punct |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 evoke | mark |
| 35 | evoke | evoke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 do | conj |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 image | det |
| 37 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 evoke | obj |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 mood | cc |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 mood | det |
| 40 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 image | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 revive | punct |
| 42 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 revive | punct |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 revive | mark |
| 44 | revive | revive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 evoke | conj |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 sensation | det |
| 46 | sensation | sensation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 revive | obj |
| 47 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 49 emotion | cc |
| 48 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 emotion | det |
| 49 | emotion | emotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 sensation | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | a short poem endeavors | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | the painter endeavors not said here | with a few strokes of the brush | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | evoke | to-infinitive | a image or a mood | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | revive | to-infinitive | a sensation or a emotion | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sensation=Patient | |||||
| 7 | use | a few chosen words | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | stroke | the brush | nom stroke «act 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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