In Ghostly Japan, Autumn Fancies, sentence 1
_(1) Faded the clover now;—sere and withered the grasses: What dreams the matsumushi_[3] _in the desolate autumn-fields?
Who acts: _ · What happens: fade, wither, dream, desolate · To what, where: clover, grasses, matsumushi, desolate autumn fields
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Autumn Fancies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Faded | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 1 | punct |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 _ | appos |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 1 | punct |
| 5 | Faded | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 clover | det |
| 7 | clover | clover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Faded | obj |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 Faded | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 sere | punct |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 sere | punct |
| 11 | sere | sere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Faded | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 withered | cc |
| 13 | withered | wither | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Faded | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 grasses | det |
| 15 | grasses | grass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 withered | obj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 dreams | punct |
| 17 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 dreams | nsubj |
| 18 | dreams | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Faded | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 matsumushi | det |
| 20 | matsumushi | matsumushi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dreams | obj |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 3 | punct |
| 22 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 23 3 | punct |
| 23 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 dreams | obl |
| 24 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 23 3 | punct |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 3 | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 fields | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 fields | det |
| 28 | desolate | desolate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 fields | compound |
| 29 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fields | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 autumn | punct |
| 31 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dreams | obl |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 Faded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fade | past | _ | the clover | now | sere obl | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent clover=Patient | ||
| 2 | wither | past | _ not said here | the grasses | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dream | present | the matsumushi | the desolate autumn fields | 3 obl; What nsubj | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matsumushi=Topic | |||
| 4 | desolate | infinitive | 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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