In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 163
_ Even a worm an inch long has a soul half-an-inch long.
Who acts: inch, soul · What happens: have, inch · To what, where: worm
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 (inch, soul), 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 | _ | 4 worm | punct |
| 2 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 4 worm | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 worm | det |
| 4 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 inch | det |
| 6 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | nsubj |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 has | advmod |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 worm | acl:relcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 inch | det |
| 10 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 inch | nsubj |
| 11 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 15 inch | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 inch | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 inch | det |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 an | punct |
| 15 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | obj |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 inch | amod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 worm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a inch | a worm not said here | long property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Patient | |||
| 2 | inch | soul | half nsubj | tree rules |
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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