In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 226

Such suicide is popularly thought to be a result of cruelty in some previous state of being, or the consequence of having broken, in a former life, the mutual promise to become husband and wife.

Who acts: consequence · What happens: think, be, have, break, become · To what, where: Such suicide, result, previous state, former life, husband · 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 (consequence), 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	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 suicide	amod
2	suicide	suicide	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	aux:pass
4	popularly	popularly	ADV	_	5 thought	advmod
5	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	9 result	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 result	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 result	det
9	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 cruelty	case
11	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 result	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 state	case
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 state	det
14	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 state	amod
15	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 result	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	21 consequence	case
17	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 consequence	cop
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 consequence	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 consequence	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 consequence	det
21	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 state	nmod
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 having	mark
23	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 consequence	acl
24	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 having	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 life	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 life	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 life	det
28	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 life	amod
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 broken	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 promise	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 promise	det
32	mutual	mutual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 promise	amod
33	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 result	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 become	mark
35	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 promise	acl
36	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 become	xcomp
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 wife	cc
38	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 husband	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · passive		Such suicide		popularly property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive		a result and the mutual promise	some previous state	of cruelty; the mutual promise conj	tree rules
3	is	gerund				of the consequence	tree rules
4	have	gerund	the consequence not said here				tree rules
5	break	participle	the consequence not said here		a former life		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in life=Location
6	become	to-infinitive		husband and wife			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 226

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 226