In Ghostly Japan, Fancies of Another Faith, sentence 1
_(1) I sought in the place of graves the tomb of my vanished friend: From ancient cedars above there rippled a wild doves cry.
Who acts: _, wild doves · What happens: seek, vanish, ripple, cry · To what, where: place, ancient cedars
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Fancies of Another Faith. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_, wild doves), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sought | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 1 | punct |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 _ | appos |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 1 | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 sought | nsubj |
| 6 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sought | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 graves | case |
| 11 | graves | grave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 place | nmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tomb | det |
| 13 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 graves | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 friend | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 friend | nmod:poss |
| 16 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 friend | amod |
| 17 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tomb | nmod |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 cedars | punct |
| 19 | From | from | ADP | _ | 21 cedars | case |
| 20 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cedars | amod |
| 21 | cedars | cedar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 rippled | obl |
| 22 | above | above | ADV | _ | 23 there | advmod |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 rippled | advmod |
| 24 | rippled | ripple | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sought | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 doves | det |
| 26 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 doves | amod |
| 27 | doves | dove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 cry | nsubj |
| 28 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 rippled | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | _ | the place of graves | I nsubj | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | |||
| 2 | vanish | participle | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | ripple | past | _ not said here | ancient cedars; there | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | present | a wild doves | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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