In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 107
The philosophical beauty of the comparison will be appreciated only if we bear in mind that even the _tone_ of the echo repeats the tone of the voice.
Who acts: we, mind · What happens: appreciate, bear, repeat, intonate · To what, where: philosophical beauty, mind, tone, echo, voice
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, mind), 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 | 3 beauty | det |
| 2 | philosophical | philosophical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 beauty | amod |
| 3 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appreciated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 comparison | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 comparison | det |
| 6 | comparison | comparison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beauty | nmod |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 appreciated | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 appreciated | aux:pass |
| 9 | appreciated | appreciate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 bear | advmod |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 bear | mark |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 bear | nsubj |
| 13 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 appreciated | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 mind | case |
| 15 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bear | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 repeats | nsubj |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 tone | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tone | det |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 tone | punct |
| 20 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 repeats | nsubj |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 tone | punct |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 echo | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 echo | det |
| 24 | echo | echo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tone | nmod |
| 25 | repeats | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 mind | acl:relcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tone | det |
| 27 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 repeats | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 voice | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 voice | det |
| 30 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tone | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 appreciated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appreciate | future · passive | the philosophical beauty of the comparison | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | bear a condition, not said to happen | present | we | mind | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | repeat | present | mind | the tone of the voice | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tone=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | intonate | the echo | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | intonate | the voice | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=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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