In Ghostly Japan, Autumn Fancies, sentence 3
_(3) Viewing this autumn-moon, I dream of my native village Under the same soft light,—and the shadows about my home.
Who acts: _ · What happens: view, dream · To what, where: autumn moon, same soft light
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 | 12 dream | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 3 | punct |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 _ | appos |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 3 | punct |
| 5 | Viewing | view | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 _ | acl |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 moon | det |
| 7 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 moon | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 autumn | punct |
| 9 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Viewing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 dream | nsubj |
| 12 | dream | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 village | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 village | nmod:poss |
| 15 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 village | amod |
| 16 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dream | obl |
| 17 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 21 light | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 light | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 light | amod |
| 20 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 light | amod |
| 21 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dream | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 light | punct |
| 23 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 and | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dream | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 shadows | det |
| 26 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 and | obj |
| 27 | about | about | ADP | _ | 29 home | case |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 home | nmod:poss |
| 29 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shadows | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 dream | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | view | gerund | _ not said here | this autumn moon | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer moon=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | dream | present | _ | the same soft light | of my native village; I nsubj | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=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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