In Ghostly Japan, Sublimity of Intellectual Power, sentence 3

[4] This is quite novel in its way,—a product of the University: the original runs thus:—

Who acts: This, original · What happens: be, run · To what, where: way, product

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: who acts (This, original), 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	_	7 novel	punct
2	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 [	appos
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 4	punct
4	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 novel	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 novel	cop
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 novel	advmod
7	novel	novel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 way	nmod:poss
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 novel	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 way	punct
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 product	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 product	det
14	product	product	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 novel	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 University	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 University	det
17	University	University	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 product	nmod
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 runs	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 original	det
20	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 runs	nsubj
21	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 product	acl:relcl
22	thus	thus	ADV	_	21 runs	advmod
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 novel	punct
24	—	-	PUNCT	_	7 novel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	This			foul's way		a product of the University conj; 4 appos; novel property	tree rules
2	run	present	the original	a product of the University not said here				thus property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme product=Trajectory

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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Sublimity of Intellectual Power, sentence 3

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Sublimity of Intellectual Power, sentence 3