In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 157
[65] I never hear this singular proverb without being re-minded of a sentence in Huxley’s famous essay, _On the Physical Basis of Life:_—“The living protoplasm not only ultimately dies and is resolved into its mineral and lifeless constituents, but is always dying, and, strange as the paradox may sound, _could not live unless it died_.”
Who acts: 65, living protoplasm, paradox, Huxley · What happens: not hear, re-mind, not die, resolve, die, sound · To what, where: singular proverb, famous essay, mineral · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (65, living protoplasm, paradox, Huxley), 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 65 | punct |
| 2 | 65 | 65 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 65 | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 hear | nsubj |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 hear | advmod |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 re-minded | punct |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 proverb | det |
| 8 | singular | singular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 proverb | amod |
| 9 | proverb | proverb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hear | obj |
| 10 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 re-minded | mark |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 re-minded | aux:pass |
| 12 | re-minded | re-mind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sentence | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sentence | det |
| 15 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 re-minded | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 essay | case |
| 17 | Huxley | Huxley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 essay | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Huxley | case |
| 19 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 essay | amod |
| 20 | essay | essay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 re-minded | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Basis | punct |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 Basis | punct |
| 23 | On | on | ADP | _ | 26 Basis | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Basis | det |
| 25 | Physical | physical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Basis | amod |
| 26 | Basis | Basis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 re-minded | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Life | case |
| 28 | Life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Basis | nmod |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 _ | punct |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 re-minded | punct |
| 31 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 re-minded | punct |
| 32 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 dies | punct |
| 33 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 protoplasm | det |
| 34 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 protoplasm | amod |
| 35 | protoplasm | protoplasm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 dies | nsubj |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 dies | advmod |
| 37 | only | only | ADV | _ | 38 ultimately | advmod |
| 38 | ultimately | ultimately | ADV | _ | 39 dies | advmod |
| 39 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 re-minded | parataxis |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 resolved | cc |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 resolved | aux:pass |
| 42 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 dies | conj |
| 43 | into | into | ADP | _ | 45 mineral | case |
| 44 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 mineral | nmod:poss |
| 45 | mineral | mineral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 resolved | obl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 constituents | cc |
| 47 | lifeless | lifeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 constituents | amod |
| 48 | constituents | constituent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 mineral | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 dying | punct |
| 50 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 53 dying | cc |
| 51 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 dying | aux |
| 52 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 53 dying | advmod |
| 53 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 dies | advcl |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 strange | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 strange | cc |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 strange | punct |
| 57 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 dies | parataxis |
| 58 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 62 sound | mark |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 paradox | det |
| 60 | paradox | paradox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 sound | nsubj |
| 61 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 62 sound | aux |
| 62 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 57 strange | parataxis |
| 63 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 67 live | punct |
| 64 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 67 live | punct |
| 65 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 67 live | aux |
| 66 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 67 live | advmod |
| 67 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 62 sound | parataxis |
| 68 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 70 died | mark |
| 69 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 70 died | nsubj |
| 70 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 67 live | advcl |
| 71 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 70 died | punct |
| 72 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 dies | punct |
| 73 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 dies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | present | 65 | this singular proverb | I nsubj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer proverb=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | re-mind | gerund · passive | Huxley's famous essay | of a sentence; on the Physical Basis of Life; 65 nsubj; I nsubj; this singular proverb obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not die in a quote | present | the living protoplasm | ultimately property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | resolve in a quote | present · passive | the living protoplasm not said here | protoplasm's mineral and lifeless constituents | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | die in a quote | present · progressive | the living protoplasm not said here | always property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | sound in a quote | may | the paradox | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | not live in a quote | could | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | die a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | paradox | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 9 | essay | Huxley | nom essay «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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