In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 7
The old ethical teaching was somewhat like this:—“Are you very angry?—do not say anything unkind, but compose a poem.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, not say, compose · To what, where: anything, poem, old ethical teaching · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 teaching | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 teaching | amod |
| 3 | ethical | ethical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 teaching | amod |
| 4 | teaching | teaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 this | cop |
| 6 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 8 this | advmod |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 this | case |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 teaching | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 angry | punct |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 angry | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 angry | punct |
| 12 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 angry | cop |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 angry | nsubj |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 angry | advmod |
| 15 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 teaching | parataxis |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 angry | punct |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 say | punct |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 say | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 say | advmod |
| 20 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 teaching | parataxis |
| 21 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 say | obj |
| 22 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 anything | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 compose | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 compose | cc |
| 25 | compose | compose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 say | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 poem | det |
| 27 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 compose | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 teaching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | like this; somewhat property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive · do-support | anything | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | |||||
| 4 | compose in a quote | infinitive | a poem | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Result |
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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