In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 138
We shall be reborn into some one of them according to our karma.—Compare with No. 74.
What happens: reborn, accord, compare · To what, where: We, No.
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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 reborn | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 reborn | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reborn | aux:pass |
| 4 | reborn | reborn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 reborn | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 one | nmod |
| 10 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 karma | case |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 according | fixed |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 karma | nmod:poss |
| 13 | karma | karma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reborn | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reborn | punct |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Compare | punct |
| 16 | Compare | compare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 reborn | parataxis |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 No. | case |
| 18 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 16 Compare | obj |
| 19 | 74 | 74 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 No. | flat |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reborn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reborn | shall · passive | We | into some one of spirits; accord our karma | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | compare | infinitive | No. | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent no.=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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