In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 216
The common people seldom speak of _Nehan_, and have little knowledge of those profound doctrines to which the term is related.
Who acts: common people, term · What happens: speak, have, be · To what, where: little knowledge · 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 (common people, term), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 2 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 speak | nsubj |
| 4 | seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | 5 speak | advmod |
| 5 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 speak | obl |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Nehan | punct |
| 8 | Nehan | Nehan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 speak | parataxis |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Nehan | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 have | cc |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 speak | conj |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 knowledge | amod |
| 14 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 doctrines | case |
| 16 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 doctrines | det |
| 17 | profound | profound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 doctrines | amod |
| 18 | doctrines | doctrine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 knowledge | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 related | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 term | det |
| 22 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 related | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 related | cop |
| 24 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 doctrines | amod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | the common people | Nehan parataxis; seldom property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the common people not said here | little knowledge of that profound doctrines | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the term | to that profound doctrines; related property | 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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