In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 218
_ Never let go the reins of the wild colt of the heart.
Who acts: _ · What happens: not let, go · To what, where: reins
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 (_), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 let | nsubj |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 reins | det |
| 6 | reins | rein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 colt | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 colt | det |
| 9 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 colt | amod |
| 10 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reins | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 heart | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 heart | det |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 colt | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let | past | _ | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | _ not said here | the reins of the wild colt of the heart | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rein=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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