In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 43
In unfamiliar fields he listens to the great autumn chorus of insects; and the sound revives for him the memory of his far-off home and of his parents.
Who acts: value, sound · What happens: listen, revive, chorus · To what, where: memory, insects
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 (value, sound), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 fields | case |
| 2 | unfamiliar | unfamiliar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fields | amod |
| 3 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 listens | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 listens | nsubj |
| 5 | listens | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 chorus | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chorus | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 chorus | amod |
| 9 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chorus | compound |
| 10 | chorus | chorus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 listens | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 insects | case |
| 12 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 chorus | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 revives | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 revives | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sound | det |
| 16 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 revives | nsubj |
| 17 | revives | revive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 listens | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 revives | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 memory | det |
| 21 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 revives | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 home | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 home | nmod:poss |
| 24 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 home | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 off | punct |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 far | compound:prt |
| 27 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 memory | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 parents | cc |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 parents | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 parents | nmod:poss |
| 31 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 home | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 listens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | present | value | to the great autumn chorus of insects; in unfamiliar fields | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in field=Theme | ||||
| 2 | revive | present | the sound | the memory of value's far home and value's parents | for value | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent memory=Patient | |||
| 3 | chorus | insects | nom chorus «event 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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