In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 28
_ Better to shave the heart than to shave the head.
What happens: shave · To what, where: heart, head
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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Better | punct |
| 2 | Better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 shave | mark |
| 4 | shave | shave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Better | csubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heart | det |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shave | obj |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 shave | mark |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 shave | mark |
| 9 | shave | shave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 shave | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 head | det |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shave | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shave | to-infinitive | the heart | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | |||||
| 2 | shave | to-infinitive | the head | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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