In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 90
_ Like a lot of blind men feeling a great elephant.
What happens: feel · To what, where: great elephant
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 | _ | 8 feeling | punct |
| 2 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 lot | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lot | det |
| 4 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feeling | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 men | case |
| 6 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lot | nmod |
| 8 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 elephant | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 elephant | amod |
| 11 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feeling | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 feeling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | a great elephant | like a lot of blind men | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=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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