In Ghostly Japan, Sublimity of Intellectual Power, sentence 1
_The mind that, undimmed, absorbs the foul and the pure together— Call it rather a sea one thousand fathoms deep!
What happens: absorb, call · To what, where: foul · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Sublimity of Intellectual Power. 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 undimmed | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mind | det |
| 3 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 undimmed | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 undimmed | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 undimmed | punct |
| 6 | undimmed | undimmed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 absorbs | punct |
| 8 | absorbs | absorb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 undimmed | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 foul | det |
| 10 | foul | foul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 absorbs | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pure | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pure | det |
| 13 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 foul | conj |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 absorbs | advmod |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Call | punct |
| 16 | Call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 absorbs | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 Call | obj |
| 18 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 20 sea | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sea | det |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Call | xcomp |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 thousand | compound |
| 22 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 fathoms | nummod |
| 23 | fathoms | fathom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 deep | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Call | xcomp |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 undimmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | absorb | present | the foul | together property | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal foul=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | infinitive | foul | a sea xcomp; deep property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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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