In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 192
One should always try to make the best of circumstances.
Who acts: One · What happens: try, make · To what, where: best
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 (One), 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 | One | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 try | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 try | aux |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 try | advmod |
| 4 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 try | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 best | det |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 make | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 circumstances | case |
| 10 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 best | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | should | One | always property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | One not said here | the best of circumstances | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset good=Product |
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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