In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 223
_ Promised [or, destined] from a former birth.
Who acts: _ · What happens: promise, destine · To what, where: former birth
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 | 2 Promised | nsubj |
| 2 | Promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 6 destined | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 destined | cc |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 destined | punct |
| 6 | destined | destine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Promised | conj |
| 7 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 6 destined | punct |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 birth | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 birth | det |
| 10 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 birth | amod |
| 11 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 destined | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | _ | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | destine | participle | _ not said here | a former birth | 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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