In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 6
Let me conclude this gossip on poetry by citing from another group of verses—also pictorial, in a certain sense, but chiefly remarkable for ingenuity—two curiosities of impromptu.
Who acts: you, me · What happens: let, conclude, cite · To what, where: me, gossip, poetry, group
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 (you, me), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | conclude | conclude | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 gossip | det |
| 5 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 conclude | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 poetry | case |
| 7 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 conclude | obl |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 citing | mark |
| 9 | citing | cite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 conclude | advcl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 group | case |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 group | det |
| 12 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 citing | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 verses | case |
| 14 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 group | nmod |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 pictorial | punct |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 17 pictorial | advmod |
| 17 | pictorial | pictorial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 verses | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sense | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 sense | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sense | det |
| 21 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sense | amod |
| 22 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pictorial | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 remarkable | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 remarkable | cc |
| 25 | chiefly | chiefly | ADV | _ | 26 remarkable | advmod |
| 26 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sense | appos |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 ingenuity | case |
| 28 | ingenuity | ingenuity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 remarkable | obl |
| 29 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 curiosities | punct |
| 30 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 curiosities | nummod |
| 31 | curiosities | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pictorial | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 impromptu | case |
| 33 | impromptu | impromptu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 curiosities | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | conclude | infinitive | me not said here | this gossip | poetry | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gossip=Theme | |||
| 3 | cite | gerund | me not said here | another group of verses and pictorial and two curiosities of impromptu | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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