In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 175
_ An inch of virtue; a foot of demon.
To what, where: inch
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 inch | punct |
| 2 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 inch | det |
| 3 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 virtue | case |
| 5 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 inch | nmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 foot | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 foot | det |
| 8 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 inch | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 demon | case |
| 10 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 foot | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 inch | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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