In Ghostly Japan, Shintō Revery, sentence 9
Yet these little texts have a very real merit of their own, and an intimate relation to Japanese aesthetic feeling and experience.
Who acts: little texts · What happens: have · To what, where: real merit
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 (little texts), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 5 have | cc |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 texts | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 texts | amod |
| 4 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 merit | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 real | advmod |
| 8 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 merit | amod |
| 9 | merit | merit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 own | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 own | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 merit | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 relation | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 relation | cc |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 relation | det |
| 16 | intimate | intimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 relation | amod |
| 17 | relation | relation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 feeling | case |
| 19 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 feeling | amod |
| 20 | aesthetic | aesthetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 feeling | compound |
| 21 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 relation | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 experience | cc |
| 23 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 feeling | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | this little texts | a real merit of butterflies's own | a intimate relation to Japanese aesthetic feeling and experience conj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merit=Patient |
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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