In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 131
This proverb is used in reference to the conduct of those who undertake to do some work, and leave the most essential part of the work unfinished.
What happens: use, undertake, do, leave, conduct · To what, where: proverb, reference, work, essential part, those
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: 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 proverb | det |
| 2 | proverb | proverb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 used | aux:pass |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 reference | case |
| 6 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 conduct | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 conduct | det |
| 9 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 those | case |
| 11 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 conduct | nmod |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 undertake | nsubj |
| 13 | undertake | undertake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 those | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 undertake | xcomp |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 work | det |
| 17 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 do | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leave | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 leave | cc |
| 20 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 used | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 part | det |
| 22 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 23 essential | advmod |
| 23 | essential | essential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 part | amod |
| 24 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leave | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 unfinished | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 unfinished | det |
| 27 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 unfinished | compound |
| 28 | unfinished | unfinished | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 part | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · passive | this proverb | reference | to the conduct of those | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | undertake | present | who nsubj | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | some work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | leave | infinitive | the essential part of the work unfinished | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | |||||
| 5 | conduct | those | nom conduct «act 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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