In Ghostly Japan, After Farewell, sentence 1
_Whither now should! look?—where is the place of parting?
What happens: look, be · To what, where: place
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, After Farewell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 6 look | punct |
| 2 | Whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 look | advmod |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 should | advmod |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 look | aux |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 should | punct |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 place | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 place | advmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 place | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 look | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 parting | case |
| 14 | parting | parting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 place | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | should | whither property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the place | of parting | tree rules |
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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