In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 17

_ The bird that cries _korokoro_ in the mountain rice-field I know to be a _hototogisu;_—yet it may have been my father; it may have been my mother.

Who acts: bird, I, mountain · What happens: cry, know, be · To what, where: korokoro, rice field, _ hototogisu, father, mother, bird · 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 (bird, I, mountain), 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 bird	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 cries	nsubj
5	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bird	acl:relcl
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 korokoro	punct
7	korokoro	korokoro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cries	obj
8	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 korokoro	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	14 field	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 field	det
11	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 field	nsubj
12	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 field	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 field	punct
14	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cries	obl
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 know	nsubj
16	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 field	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	21 hototogisu	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 hototogisu	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hototogisu	det
20	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hototogisu	amod
21	hototogisu	hototogisu	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 know	ccomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 father	punct
23	_	_	PUNCT	_	31 father	punct
24	—	-	PUNCT	_	31 father	punct
25	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	31 father	cc
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 father	nsubj
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 father	aux
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 father	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 father	cop
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 father	nmod:poss
31	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bird	conj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 mother	punct
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 mother	nsubj
34	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 mother	aux
35	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 mother	aux
36	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 mother	cop
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 mother	nmod:poss
38	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bird	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bird	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present	the bird yet my father and my mother	korokoro	the rice field mountain		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent korokoro=Topic
2	know	present	I	the rice field mountain not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer field=Stimulus
3	is a	to-infinitive		a _ hototogisu			tree rules
4	is a	may · perfect	mountain	my father		my nmod:poss	tree rules
5	is a	may · perfect	mountain	my mother		my nmod:poss	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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 17

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 17