In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 22
Of course the selection is imperfectly representative; but it will serve to illustrate certain effects of Buddhist teaching upon popular thought and speech.
Who acts: choice · What happens: be, serve, illustrate, effect · To what, where: certain effects, Buddhist teaching
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 (choice), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 selection | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 selection | det |
| 4 | selection | selection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 representative | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 representative | cop |
| 6 | imperfectly | imperfectly | ADV | _ | 7 representative | advmod |
| 7 | representative | representative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 serve | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 serve | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 serve | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 serve | aux |
| 12 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 representative | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 illustrate | mark |
| 14 | illustrate | illustrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 serve | xcomp |
| 15 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 effects | amod |
| 16 | effects | effect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 illustrate | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 teaching | case |
| 18 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 teaching | amod |
| 19 | teaching | teaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 effects | nmod |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 thought | case |
| 21 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 thought | amod |
| 22 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 teaching | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 speech | cc |
| 24 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thought | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 representative | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | of the selection; imperfectly, representative property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | serve | future | choice | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | illustrate | to-infinitive | choice not said here | certain effects of Buddhist teaching upon popular thought and speech | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Destination | ||||
| 4 | effect | Buddhist teaching upon popular thought and speech | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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