In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 106
[57] Meaning that great power should be given only to the strong.
What happens: give · To what, where: great power, 57
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: 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 | _ | 2 57 | punct |
| 2 | 57 | 57 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 4 Meaning | punct |
| 4 | Meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 57 | appos |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 given | obj |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 power | amod |
| 7 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 given | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 given | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 given | aux:pass |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 Meaning | acl:relcl |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 strong | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 strong | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 strong | det |
| 14 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 given | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 57 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | should · passive | great power | Meaning obj; strong property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient that=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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