In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 8
Is your best-beloved dead?—do not yield to useless grief, but try to calm your mind by making a poem.
Who acts: your · What happens: be, not yield, try, calm, make, mind · To what, where: mind, poem
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 (your), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 beloved | cop |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 beloved | nmod:poss |
| 3 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 beloved | advmod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 best | punct |
| 5 | beloved | belov | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 beloved | xcomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 beloved | punct |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 yield | punct |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 yield | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 yield | advmod |
| 11 | yield | yield | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 beloved | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 grief | case |
| 13 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grief | amod |
| 14 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 yield | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 try | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 try | cc |
| 17 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 yield | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 calm | mark |
| 19 | calm | calm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 try | xcomp |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mind | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 calm | obj |
| 22 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 23 making | mark |
| 23 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 calm | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 poem | det |
| 25 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 making | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beloved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | your nmod:poss; belov, dead property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not yield | infinitive · do-support | to useless grief | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to grief=Theme | |||||
| 3 | try | infinitive | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | calm not said to happen | to-infinitive | your mind | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mind=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | make | gerund | a poem | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset poem=Product | |||||
| 6 | mind | your | nom mind «cognition 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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