In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 30
And this is especially true of the emotional class of such poems,—a literal translation of which, in the majority of cases, would signify almost nothing to the Western mind.
Who acts: this, majority · What happens: be, signify · To what, where: nothing
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 (this, majority), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 true | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 true | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | cop |
| 4 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 5 true | advmod |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 class | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 class | det |
| 8 | emotional | emotional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 class | amod |
| 9 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 true | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 poems | case |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 poems | amod |
| 12 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 class | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 translation | punct |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 translation | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 translation | det |
| 16 | literal | literal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 translation | amod |
| 17 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 poems | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 signify | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 majority | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 majority | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 majority | det |
| 23 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 signify | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 cases | case |
| 25 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 majority | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 majority | punct |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 signify | aux |
| 28 | signify | signify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 translation | acl:relcl |
| 29 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 30 nothing | advmod |
| 30 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 28 signify | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 mind | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 mind | det |
| 33 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 mind | amod |
| 34 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 nothing | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this | of the emotional class of such poems a literal translation; especially, true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | signify | would | the majority of cases | nothing | of a literal translation; to the Western mind | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme to mind=Attribute |
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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