In Ghostly Japan, Fancies of Another Faith, sentence 2
_(2) Perhaps a freak of the wind-yet perhaps a sign of remembrance,— This fall of a single leaf on the water I pour for the dead.
Who acts: wind, I · What happens: sign, pour · To what, where: freak, water, _
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 (wind, I), 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 | root | root |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 2 | punct |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 _ | appos |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 2 | punct |
| 5 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 7 freak | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 freak | det |
| 7 | freak | freak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sign | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sign | det |
| 10 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sign | nsubj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 wind | punct |
| 12 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 sign | advmod |
| 13 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 15 sign | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sign | det |
| 15 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 freak | acl:relcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 remembrance | case |
| 17 | remembrance | remembrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sign | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fall | punct |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 fall | punct |
| 20 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 fall | det |
| 21 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sign | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 leaf | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 leaf | det |
| 24 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 leaf | amod |
| 25 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fall | nmod |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 water | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 water | det |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fall | nmod |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 pour | nsubj |
| 30 | pour | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 water | acl:relcl |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 dead | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 dead | det |
| 33 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 pour | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sign | wind | a freak not said here | yet | of remembrance; this fall of a single leaf on the water conj; perhaps property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pour | present | I | the water not said here | for the dead | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent water=Patient for dead=Beneficiary |
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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