In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 200
_ Egg-plants do not grow upon melon-vines.
Who acts: _ plants · What happens: not grow · To what, where: melon vines
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 (_ plants), 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 | 4 plants | compound |
| 2 | Egg | Egg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | flat |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Egg | punct |
| 4 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grow | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 grow | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 grow | advmod |
| 7 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 vines | case |
| 9 | melon | melon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 vines | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 melon | punct |
| 11 | vines | vine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grow | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not grow | present · do-support | _ plants | melon vines | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon vine=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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