In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 36
[3] Regret and desire are equally vain in this world of impermanency; for all joy is the beginning of an experience that must have its pain.
Who acts: 3 Regret, experience, beginning · What happens: be, have, pain · To what, where: world, beginning, pain
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 (3 Regret, experience, beginning), 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 | _ | 9 vain | punct |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Regret | nummod |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 3 | punct |
| 4 | Regret | regret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 vain | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 desire | cc |
| 6 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Regret | conj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 vain | cop |
| 8 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 9 vain | advmod |
| 9 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 vain | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 impermanency | case |
| 14 | impermanency | impermanency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 world | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 beginning | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 joy | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 joy | det |
| 18 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 beginning | obl |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 beginning | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 beginning | det |
| 21 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 vain | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 experience | case |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 experience | det |
| 24 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 beginning | nmod |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 have | nsubj |
| 26 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 have | aux |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 experience | acl:relcl |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 pain | nmod:poss |
| 29 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 have | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 vain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | 3 Regret and desire | this world of impermanency | equally, vain property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | 3 Regret and desire not said here | the beginning | for all joy; of a experience | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | must | a experience | beginning's pain | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient | ||||
| 4 | pain | beginning | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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