In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 44
But here is something incomparably more touching,—though in literal translation probably more obscure,—than either of the preceding specimens;—
Who acts: something · What happens: be, precede
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 (something), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 here | cc |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 here | cop |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 here | nsubj |
| 5 | incomparably | incomparably | ADV | _ | 7 touching | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 touching | advmod |
| 7 | touching | touching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 something | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 obscure | punct |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 obscure | punct |
| 10 | though | though | ADV | _ | 16 obscure | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 translation | case |
| 12 | literal | literal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 translation | amod |
| 13 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 obscure | obl |
| 14 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 16 obscure | advmod |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 obscure | advmod |
| 16 | obscure | obscure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 touching | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 either | punct |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 either | punct |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 either | case |
| 20 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 obscure | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 specimens | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 specimens | det |
| 23 | preceding | precede | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 specimens | amod |
| 24 | specimens | specimen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 either | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 here | punct |
| 26 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | something touching | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | precede | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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