In Ghostly Japan, On the Cast-off Shell of a Sémi, sentence 2
O poor singer of summer, Wherefore thus consume all thy body in song?
Who acts: poor singer · What happens: consume · To what, where: body, song
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, On the Cast-off Shell of a Sémi. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor singer), 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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 singer | discourse |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 singer | amod |
| 3 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 consume | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 summer | case |
| 5 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 singer | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 consume | punct |
| 7 | Wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 consume | advmod |
| 8 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 9 consume | advmod |
| 9 | consume | consume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 body | det |
| 11 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 body | nmod:poss |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 consume | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 song | case |
| 14 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 consume | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 consume | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consume | infinitive | poor singer of summer | thy body | song | thus, wherefore property | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Asset |
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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