In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 13

The other curiosity is a recent impromptu effort to portray, in one verse of seventeen syllables, the last degree of devil-may-care-poverty,—perhaps the brave misery of the wandering student;—and I very much doubt whether the effort could be improved upon:—

Who acts: other curiosity, I · What happens: be, portray, wonder, doubt, improve, verse · To what, where: recent impromptu effort, effort, seventeen syllables

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 (other curiosity, I), 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 curiosity	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 curiosity	amod
3	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 effort	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 effort	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 effort	det
6	recent	recent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 effort	amod
7	impromptu	impromptu	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 effort	compound
8	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 portray	mark
10	portray	portray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 effort	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 verse	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 verse	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 verse	nummod
14	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 effort	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 syllables	case
16	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 syllables	nummod
17	syllables	syllable	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 verse	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 degree	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 degree	det
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 degree	amod
21	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 effort	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	29 poverty	case
23	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 poverty	nsubj
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 devil	punct
25	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 poverty	aux
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 care	punct
27	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 poverty	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 care	punct
29	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 degree	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 misery	punct
31	—	-	PUNCT	_	35 misery	punct
32	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	35 misery	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 misery	det
34	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 misery	amod
35	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 effort	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 student	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 student	det
38	wandering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 student	amod
39	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 misery	nmod
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 effort	punct
41	—	-	PUNCT	_	46 doubt	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 doubt	cc
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 doubt	nsubj
44	very	very	ADV	_	45 much	advmod
45	much	much	ADV	_	46 doubt	advmod
46	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 effort	conj
47	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	52 improved	mark
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 effort	det
49	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 improved	nsubj
50	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 improved	aux
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 improved	aux:pass
52	improved	improve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 doubt	acl
53	upon	upon	ADP	_	52 improved	obl
54	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 effort	punct
55	—	-	PUNCT	_	8 effort	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the other curiosity	a recent impromptu effort and one verse of seventeen syllables and the last degree of care poverty devil and the brave misery of the wandering student and doubt	one verse of seventeen syllables conj; the last degree of care poverty devil conj; the brave misery of the wandering student conj	tree rules
2	portray	to-infinitive				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	wonder speech: ask	gerund				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	doubt		I			tree rules
5	improve	could · passive		the effort		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
6	verse			seventeen syllables		nom verse «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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 13