In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 102
_ Even a devil, when you become accustomed to the sight of him, may prove a pleasant acquaintance.
Who acts: you, devil · What happens: become, accustom, prove, sight · To what, where: pleasant acquaintance, devil
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, devil), 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 | _ | 4 devil | punct |
| 2 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 4 devil | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 devil | det |
| 4 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 prove | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 become | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 become | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 become | nsubj |
| 8 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 devil | acl:relcl |
| 9 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 become | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 sight | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sight | det |
| 12 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accustomed | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sight | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 devil | punct |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 prove | aux |
| 17 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 acquaintance | det |
| 19 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 acquaintance | amod |
| 20 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 prove | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 prove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | accustom | participle | you not said here | to the sight of devil | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | prove | may | a devil | a pleasant acquaintance | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acquaintance=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sight | devil | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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