In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 57
But perhaps this fact will lend additional interest to the following atoms of emotional expression:—
Who acts: fact · What happens: lend, follow · To what, where: additional interest, following atoms
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 (fact), 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 | _ | 6 lend | cc |
| 2 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 6 lend | advmod |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 fact | det |
| 4 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lend | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 lend | aux |
| 6 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | additional | additional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 interest | amod |
| 8 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lend | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 atoms | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 atoms | det |
| 11 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 atoms | amod |
| 12 | atoms | atom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lend | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 expression | case |
| 14 | emotional | emotional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 expression | amod |
| 15 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 atoms | nmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 lend | punct |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 lend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend | future | this fact | additional interest | the following atoms of emotional expression | perhaps property | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent interest=Theme to atom=Recipient | ||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: 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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