In Ghostly Japan, After Farewell, sentence 2
Boundaries all have vanished;—nothing tells of direction: Only the waste of sea under the shining moon!
Who acts: Boundaries, nothing · What happens: vanish, tell, shine · To what, where: shining moon · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Boundaries, nothing), 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 | Boundaries | boundary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 vanished | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 vanished | advmod |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 vanished | aux |
| 4 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 vanished | punct |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 tells | punct |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 tells | nsubj |
| 8 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 vanished | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 direction | case |
| 10 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tells | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 waste | punct |
| 12 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 14 waste | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 waste | det |
| 14 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tells | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 waste | nmod |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 moon | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 moon | det |
| 19 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 moon | amod |
| 20 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tells | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | present · perfect | Boundaries | all property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | nothing | the shining moon | of direction; the waste of sea parataxis | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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