In Ghostly Japan, Shintō Revery, sentence 7
But there are thousands of pictorial poems that do not; and these would seem mere insipidities to a reader ignorant of their true purpose.
Who acts: thousands, pictorial poems, these, poems · What happens: be, not do, seem, purpose · To what, where: mere insipidities
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 (thousands, pictorial poems, these, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 are | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 3 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 are | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 poems | case |
| 6 | pictorial | pictorial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 poems | compound |
| 7 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thousands | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 do | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 poems | acl:relcl |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 do | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 seem | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seem | cc |
| 13 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 seem | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 seem | aux |
| 15 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 are | parataxis |
| 16 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 insipidities | amod |
| 17 | insipidities | insipidity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 seem | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 ignorant | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 ignorant | det |
| 20 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ignorant | compound |
| 21 | ignorant | ignorant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seem | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 purpose | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 24 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 purpose | amod |
| 25 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ignorant | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | thousands of pictorial poems | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not do | present | pictorial poems | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | seem | would | these | mere insipidities | to a reader ignorant of poems's true purpose | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme insipidity=Attribute | |||
| 4 | purpose | poems = poem | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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