In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 193
[72] The beauty of the moon is obscured by masses of clouds; the trees no sooner blossom than their flowers are scattered by the wind.
Who acts: masses, wind · What happens: obscure, scatter · To what, where: beauty, flowers
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 (masses, wind), 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 72 | punct |
| 2 | 72 | 72 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 obscured | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 72 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beauty | det |
| 5 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 obscured | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 moon | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 moon | det |
| 8 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beauty | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 obscured | aux:pass |
| 10 | obscured | obscure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 masses | case |
| 12 | masses | mass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 obscured | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 clouds | case |
| 14 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 masses | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 trees | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 trees | det |
| 17 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 obscured | obl |
| 18 | no | no | ADV | _ | 19 sooner | advmod |
| 19 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 obscured | advmod |
| 20 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sooner | nsubj |
| 21 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 25 scattered | mark |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 flowers | nmod:poss |
| 23 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 scattered | aux:pass |
| 25 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 sooner | advcl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 wind | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wind | det |
| 28 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 scattered | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 obscured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obscure | present · passive | masses of clouds | the beauty of the moon | 72 obl; the trees obl; soon property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | scatter | present · passive | the wind | trees's flowers | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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