In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 79
The ordinary meaning is to the effect that no matter how poor or miserable the individuals composing a multitude, they collectively represent a respectable force.
Who acts: ordinary meaning, individuals · What happens: be, compose, represent · To what, where: multitude, respectable force
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 (ordinary meaning, individuals), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meaning | det |
| 2 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 meaning | amod |
| 3 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 effect | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 effect | cop |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 effect | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 effect | det |
| 7 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 poor | mark |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 matter | det |
| 10 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 poor | nsubj |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 poor | advmod |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 effect | nmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 miserable | cc |
| 14 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 poor | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 individuals | det |
| 16 | individuals | individual | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 poor | nsubj |
| 17 | composing | compose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 individuals | acl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 multitude | det |
| 19 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 composing | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 represent | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 represent | nsubj |
| 22 | collectively | collectively | ADV | _ | 23 represent | advmod |
| 23 | represent | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 effect | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 force | det |
| 25 | respectable | respectable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 force | amod |
| 26 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 represent | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 effect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the ordinary meaning | to the effect; poor no matter the individuals nmod | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | compose | gerund | the individuals not said here | a multitude | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent multitude=Result | ||||
| 3 | represent | present | individuals = individual | a respectable force | collectively property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot force=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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