In Ghostly Japan, Shintō Revery, sentence 3

“Have I become a god?”—that is to say, “Have I died?—am I only a ghost in this desolation?”

Who acts: I, that · What happens: have, become, be, die · To what, where: god · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (I, that), 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	_	2 Have	punct
2	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 become	nsubj
4	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Have	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 god	det
6	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	xcomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 say	nsubj:outer
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 say	cop
12	to	to	PART	_	13 say	mark
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Have	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 died	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 died	punct
16	Have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 died	aux
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 died	nsubj
18	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 say	ccomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 died	punct
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 am	punct
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 say	parataxis
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 am	nsubj
23	only	only	ADV	_	25 ghost	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 ghost	det
25	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 I	appos
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 desolation	case
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 desolation	det
28	desolation	desolation	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ghost	nmod
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present				tree rules
2	become in a quote	present	I	a god		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	be speech: assert	present	that		say property	tree rules
4	die in a quote	present	I			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/23/3/

🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Shintō Revery, sentence 3

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Shintō Revery, sentence 3