In Ghostly Japan, Shintō Revery, sentence 8

When you learn that some exquisite text of gold means only, “_Evening-sunlight on the wings of the water-fowl_,”—or,”_Now in my garden the flowers bloom, and the butterflies dance_,”—then your first interest in decorative poetry is apt to wither away.

Who acts: you, exquisite text, flowers, butterflies, first interest, your · What happens: learn, mean, bloom, dance, be, wither away · To what, where: Evening sunlight, wings, garden, decorative poetry · 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 (you, exquisite text, flowers, butterflies), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 learn	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 learn	nsubj
3	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 apt	advcl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 means	mark
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 text	det
6	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 text	amod
7	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 means	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 gold	case
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 text	nmod
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	ccomp
11	only	only	ADV	_	10 means	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sunlight	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 sunlight	punct
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	17 sunlight	punct
15	Evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sunlight	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Evening	punct
17	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 learn	obl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 wings	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wings	det
20	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 learn	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 fowl	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fowl	det
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fowl	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 water	punct
25	fowl	fowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wings	nmod
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 learn	discourse
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 learn	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 learn	punct
29	—	-	PUNCT	_	37 garden	punct
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 garden	cc
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 or	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 or	punct
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	30 or	punct
34	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 garden	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 garden	case
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 garden	nmod:poss
37	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 learn	obl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 flowers	det
39	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 bloom	nsubj
40	bloom	bloom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 garden	acl:relcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 dance	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 dance	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 butterflies	det
44	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 dance	nsubj
45	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	conj
46	_	_	PUNCT	_	45 dance	punct
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 learn	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 learn	punct
49	—	-	PUNCT	_	53 interest	punct
50	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	53 interest	advmod
51	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 interest	nmod:poss
52	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	53 interest	amod
53	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 apt	nsubj
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 poetry	case
55	decorative	decorative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 poetry	amod
56	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 interest	nmod
57	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 apt	cop
58	apt	apt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
59	to	to	PART	_	60 wither	mark
60	wither	wither	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 apt	csubj
61	away	away	ADV	_	60 wither	advmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	58 apt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	learn	present	you	Evening sunlight	the wings of the water fowl	in my garden	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mean	present	some exquisite text of gold				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	bloom in a quote	present	the flowers	my garden not said here			vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location garden=Theme
4	dance in a quote	present	the butterflies				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	your first interest in decorative poetry			apt property	tree rules
6	wither away	to-infinitive				away property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	interest		your		decorative poetry		nom interest «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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, Shintō Revery, sentence 8

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Shintō Revery, sentence 8