In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 198
_ Joy and sorrow exist only in the mind.
Who acts: _ · What happens: exist · To what, where: mind
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 (_), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 exist | nsubj |
| 2 | Joy | Joy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | flat |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sorrow | cc |
| 4 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | conj |
| 5 | exist | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 mind | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 mind | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mind | det |
| 9 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 exist | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 exist | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | present | _ and sorrow | the mind | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mind=Location |
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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