In Ghostly Japan, Shintō Revery, sentence 13
The following—mere thumb-nail sketches in verse—are of recent date.
What happens: follow, be
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Shintō Revery. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 following | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 sketches | case |
| 3 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 sketches | punct |
| 4 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sketches | amod |
| 5 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nail | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 thumb | punct |
| 7 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sketches | compound |
| 8 | sketches | sketch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 date | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 verse | case |
| 10 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sketches | nmod |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 sketches | punct |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 date | cop |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 date | case |
| 14 | recent | recent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 date | amod |
| 15 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 date | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | of recent date; follow mere nail sketches in verse | 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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