In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 114
_ Women have no homes of their own in the Three States of Existence.
Who acts: Women · What happens: have · To what, where: homes, Three States
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 (Women), 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 Women | punct |
| 2 | Women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 homes | det |
| 5 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 own | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 own | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 homes | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 States | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 States | det |
| 11 | Three | Three | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 States | compound |
| 12 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 homes | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Existence | case |
| 14 | Existence | Existence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 States | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Women | no homes of homes's own | the Three States of Existence | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=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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