In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 9
Are you troubled because you are about to die, leaving so many things unfinished?—be brave, and write a poem on death!
Who acts: you · What happens: be, die, leave, unfinish, write · To what, where: many things, poem, death
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 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 troubled | cop |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 troubled | nsubj |
| 3 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 about | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 about | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 about | cop |
| 7 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 troubled | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 die | mark |
| 9 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 about | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 leaving | punct |
| 11 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 die | advcl |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 many | advmod |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 things | amod |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 leaving | obj |
| 15 | unfinished | unfinish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 things | acl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 unfinished | punct |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 brave | punct |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 brave | cop |
| 19 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 troubled | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 write | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 write | cc |
| 22 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 brave | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 poem | det |
| 24 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 write | obj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 death | case |
| 26 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 write | obl |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 troubled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | troubled property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | die | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | leave | gerund | you not said here | many things | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 5 | unfinish | participle | many things not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is | infinitive | brave property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | write | infinitive | a poem | death | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent poem=Theme on death=Destination |
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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