In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 22
A Japanese artist would be condemned for attempting elaboration of detail in a sketch intended to recreate the memory of some landscape seen through the blue haze of a spring morning, or under the great blond light of an autumn after-noon.
Who acts: spring morning · What happens: condemn, attempt, intend, recreate, see, elaborate · To what, where: Japanese artist, elaboration, sketch, memory, landscape, blue haze
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 (spring morning), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 artist | det |
| 2 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 artist | amod |
| 3 | artist | artist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 condemned | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 condemned | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 condemned | aux:pass |
| 6 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 attempting | mark |
| 8 | attempting | attempt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 condemned | advcl |
| 9 | elaboration | elaboration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 attempting | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 detail | case |
| 11 | detail | detail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 elaboration | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sketch | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sketch | det |
| 14 | sketch | sketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 attempting | obl |
| 15 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 sketch | acl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 recreate | mark |
| 17 | recreate | recreate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 intended | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 memory | det |
| 19 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 recreate | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 landscape | case |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 landscape | det |
| 22 | landscape | landscape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 memory | nmod |
| 23 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 landscape | acl |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 haze | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 haze | det |
| 26 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 haze | amod |
| 27 | haze | haze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seen | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 morning | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 morning | det |
| 30 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 morning | compound |
| 31 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 haze | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 light | punct |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 light | cc |
| 34 | under | under | ADP | _ | 38 light | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 light | det |
| 36 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 light | amod |
| 37 | blond | blond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 light | amod |
| 38 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 memory | conj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 autumn | case |
| 40 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 autumn | det |
| 41 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 light | nmod |
| 42 | after | after | ADP | _ | 44 noon | case |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 after | punct |
| 44 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 autumn | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 condemned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | condemn | would · passive | a Japanese artist | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | attempt | gerund | elaboration of detail | a sketch | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elaboration=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | intend | participle | a sketch not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | recreate not said to happen | to-infinitive | the memory of some landscape or the great blond light of a autumn after noon | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | see | participle | some landscape not said here | the blue haze of a spring morning | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | elaborate | detail | nom elaboration «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | haze | a spring morning | nom haze «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 8 | light | a autumn after noon | nom light «phenomenon 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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