In Ghostly Japan, After Long Absence, sentence 1

_The garden that once I loved, and even the hedge of the garden,— All is changed and strange: the moonlight only is faithful;— The moon alone remembers the charm of the time gone by!

Who acts: I, moonlight, moon · What happens: love, change, be, remember, go by · To what, where: garden, All, charm, time

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, After Long Absence. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, moonlight, moon), 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 garden	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 garden	det
3	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 changed	obl
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 loved	obj
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 loved	advmod
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 loved	nsubj
7	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 garden	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hedge	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hedge	cc
10	even	even	ADV	_	12 hedge	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hedge	det
12	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 garden	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 garden	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 garden	det
15	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hedge	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 garden	punct
17	—	-	PUNCT	_	20 changed	punct
18	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 changed	nsubj:pass
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 changed	aux:pass
20	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 strange	cc
22	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 changed	conj
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 faithful	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 moonlight	det
25	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 faithful	nsubj
26	only	only	ADV	_	28 faithful	advmod
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 faithful	cop
28	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 changed	parataxis
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 faithful	punct
30	—	-	PUNCT	_	34 remembers	punct
31	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 moon	det
32	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 remembers	nsubj
33	alone	alone	ADV	_	32 moon	advmod
34	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 changed	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 charm	det
36	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 remembers	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 time	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 time	det
39	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 charm	nmod
40	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 time	acl
41	by	by	ADP	_	40 gone	obl
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	love	past	I	the garden and the hedge of the garden	once property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
2	change	present · passive		All	the garden and the hedge of the garden obl	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is	present	the moonlight		faithful property	tree rules
4	remember	present	the moon	the charm of the time		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent charm=Theme
5	go by	participle		the time not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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, After Long Absence, sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, After Long Absence, sentence 1