In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 13
_ To inlay ice; to paint upon water.
What happens: inlay, paint · To what, where: ice, water
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 | _ | 3 inlay | punct |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 inlay | mark |
| 3 | inlay | inlay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 inlay | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 paint | punct |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 paint | mark |
| 7 | paint | paint | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 inlay | conj |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 paint | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 inlay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inlay | to-infinitive | ice | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ice=Destination | |||||
| 2 | paint | to-infinitive | water | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon water=Destination |
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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