In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 216
_ Good actions go not outside of the gate: bad deeds travel a thousand _ri_.
Who acts: Good actions, bad deeds · What happens: not go, travel · To what, where: gate, thousand
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 (Good actions, bad deeds), 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 | _ | 3 actions | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 actions | amod |
| 3 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 9 gate | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 gate | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gate | det |
| 9 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 travel | punct |
| 11 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 deeds | amod |
| 12 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 travel | nsubj |
| 13 | travel | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 thousand | det |
| 15 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 travel | obl |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 thousand | punct |
| 17 | ri | RI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 thousand | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 travel | discourse |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | present | Good actions | the gate | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme outside gate=Location | ||||
| 2 | travel | present | bad deeds | a thousand ri | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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