In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 133
_ There is no fence to the Three States of Existence;—there is no neighborhood to the Six Roads.
What happens: be
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 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 Roads | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 fence | det |
| 5 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 States | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 States | det |
| 8 | Three | Three | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 States | compound |
| 9 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 fence | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Existence | case |
| 11 | Existence | Existence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 States | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 is | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 is | expl |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 Roads | cop |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 neighborhood | det |
| 17 | neighborhood | neighborhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 is | nsubj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Roads | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Roads | det |
| 20 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 Roads | nummod |
| 21 | Roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 Roads | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | to the Six Roads | tree rules |
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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