In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 156
[26] A saying very commonly used in speaking of the attachment of lovers, or of the unfortunate results of any close relation between two persons.
What happens: use, speak, attach, result · To what, where: saying, speaking, 26, attachment, lovers, close relation · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 26 | punct |
| 2 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 26 | punct |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 saying | det |
| 5 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 26 | appos |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 commonly | advmod |
| 7 | commonly | commonly | ADV | _ | 8 used | advmod |
| 8 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 saying | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 speaking | case |
| 10 | speaking | speaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 used | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 attachment | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 attachment | det |
| 13 | attachment | attachment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 speaking | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 lovers | case |
| 15 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 attachment | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 results | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 results | cc |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 results | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 results | det |
| 20 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 results | amod |
| 21 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lovers | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 relation | case |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 relation | det |
| 24 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 relation | amod |
| 25 | relation | relation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 results | nmod |
| 26 | between | between | ADP | _ | 28 persons | case |
| 27 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 persons | nummod |
| 28 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 relation | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 26 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | a saying not said here | speaking of the attachment of lovers or the unfortunate results of any close relation between two persons | commonly property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | speak | the attachment of lovers or the unfortunate results of any close relation between two persons | nom speaking «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | attach | lovers or the unfortunate results of any close relation between two persons | nom attachment «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | result | any close relation between two persons | nom result «phenomenon 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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