In Ghostly Japan, Moonlight on the Sea, sentence 1
_O vapory moon of spring!—would that one plunge into ocean Could win me renewal of life as a part of thy light on the waters!
Who acts: one plunge, thy · What happens: win, renew, light · To what, where: renewal, me, waters, life
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Moonlight on the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one plunge, thy), 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 | _ | 4 moon | punct |
| 2 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 4 moon | case |
| 3 | vapory | vapory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moon | amod |
| 4 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 spring | case |
| 6 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moon | nmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 moon | punct |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 win | punct |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 win | aux |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 plunge | det |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 plunge | nummod |
| 12 | plunge | plunge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 win | nsubj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 ocean | case |
| 14 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plunge | nmod |
| 15 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 win | aux |
| 16 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 moon | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 win | obj |
| 18 | renewal | renewal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 win | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 life | case |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 renewal | nmod |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 part | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 part | det |
| 23 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 win | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 light | case |
| 25 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 light | nmod:poss |
| 26 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 part | nmod |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 waters | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 waters | det |
| 29 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 win | obl |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 moon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | could | that one plunge into ocean | renewal of life | me | the waters | as a part of thy light | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary renewal=Theme | |
| 3 | renew | life | nom renewal «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | light | thy | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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