In Ghostly Japan, Shintō Revery, sentence 6
The poems above rendered are more than pictorial: they suggest something of emotion or sentiment.
Who acts: poems · What happens: render, be, suggest · To what, where: poems, something
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 (poems), 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 poems | det |
| 2 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 more | nsubj |
| 3 | above | above | ADP | _ | 4 rendered | mark |
| 4 | rendered | render | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 poems | acl |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 more | cop |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 pictorial | case |
| 8 | pictorial | pictorial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 more | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 suggest | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 suggest | nsubj |
| 11 | suggest | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 more | conj |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 suggest | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 emotion | case |
| 14 | emotion | emotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 something | nmod |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 sentiment | cc |
| 16 | sentiment | sentiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 emotion | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 more | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | render | participle | the poems not said here | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the poems | than pictorial; more property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | suggest speech: suggest | present | poems = poem | something of emotion or sentiment | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic |
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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