In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 19
To the subject as a whole no justice could be done within the limits of a single essay.
What happens: do
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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 subject | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 subject | det |
| 3 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 done | obl |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 justice | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 justice | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 justice | amod |
| 7 | no | no | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 justice | compound |
| 8 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 subject | nmod |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 done | aux:pass |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | within | within | ADP | _ | 14 limits | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 limits | det |
| 14 | limits | limit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 done | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 essay | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 essay | det |
| 17 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 essay | amod |
| 18 | essay | essay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 limits | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could · passive | to the subject as a whole no justice; within the limits of a single essay | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
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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