In Ghostly Japan, In a Cemetery At Night, sentence 1

_This light of the moon that plays on the water I pour for the dead, Differs nothing at all from the moonlight of other years.

Who acts: moon, I, light · What happens: play, pour, differ, light · To what, where: water, nothing, all, moon

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, In a Cemetery At Night. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, I, light), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 light	punct
2	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 light	det
3	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Differs	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 moon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moon	det
6	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 light	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 plays	nsubj
8	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 moon	acl:relcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plays	obl
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 pour	nsubj
13	pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 water	acl:relcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 dead	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dead	det
16	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pour	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 light	punct
18	Differs	differ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 Differs	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 nothing	nmod
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 moonlight	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 moonlight	det
24	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Differs	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 years	case
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 years	amod
27	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 moonlight	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 Differs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	play	present	the moon		the water		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
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
3	differ	present	this light of the moon	nothing	all	from the moonlight of other years	tree rules
4	light			the moon			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, In a Cemetery At Night, sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, In a Cemetery At Night, sentence 1