In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 5
Both facts are exemplified in the history and in the texts of my collection,—though I cannot hope, in my renderings, to reproduce the original effect, whether of imagery or of feeling.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: exemplify, not hope, reproduce, render · To what, where: facts, history, renderings, original effect
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 (I, my), 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 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 facts | det |
| 2 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 exemplified | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 exemplified | aux:pass |
| 4 | exemplified | exemplify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 history | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 history | det |
| 7 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 exemplified | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 texts | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 texts | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 texts | det |
| 11 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 history | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 collection | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 collection | nmod:poss |
| 14 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 texts | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 history | punct |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 hope | punct |
| 17 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 21 hope | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 hope | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 hope | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 hope | advmod |
| 21 | hope | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 exemplified | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 renderings | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 renderings | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 renderings | nmod:poss |
| 25 | renderings | rendering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hope | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 reproduce | punct |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 reproduce | mark |
| 28 | reproduce | reproduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 hope | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 effect | det |
| 30 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 effect | amod |
| 31 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 reproduce | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 imagery | punct |
| 33 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 35 imagery | mark |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 imagery | case |
| 35 | imagery | imagery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 reproduce | obl |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 feeling | cc |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 feeling | case |
| 38 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 imagery | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 exemplified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exemplify | present · passive | both facts | the history and the texts of my collection | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not hope | can | I | my renderings | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | reproduce | to-infinitive | I not said here | the original effect | of imagery or feeling | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent effect=Patient | |||
| 4 | render | my | nom rendering «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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