In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 35
The proverb is often used in a sense similar to that of the English saying: “Watched pot never boils.”
Who acts: Watched pot · What happens: use, watch, not boil · To what, where: proverb, sense · 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 (Watched pot), 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 | 2 proverb | det |
| 2 | proverb | proverb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 used | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 used | aux:pass |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 used | advmod |
| 5 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sense | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sense | det |
| 8 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 used | obl |
| 9 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sense | amod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 that | case |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 similar | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 saying | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 saying | det |
| 14 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 saying | amod |
| 15 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 that | nmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 boils | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 boils | punct |
| 18 | Watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 pot | amod |
| 19 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 boils | nsubj |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 boils | advmod |
| 21 | boils | boil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 used | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 boils | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 boils | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · passive | the proverb | a sense | often property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | watch in a quote | participle | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not boil in a quote | present | Watched pot | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: 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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