In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 121
_ The fallen blossom never returns to the branch.
Who acts: fallen blossom · What happens: fall, not return
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 (fallen blossom), 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 | _ | 6 returns | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 blossom | det |
| 3 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 blossom | amod |
| 4 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returns | nsubj |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 returns | advmod |
| 6 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 branch | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 branch | det |
| 9 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returns | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returns | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | participle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | not return | present | the fallen blossom | to the branch result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to branch=Result |
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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