In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 38
_ Nothing will grow, if the seed be not sown.
Who acts: Nothing · What happens: grow, not sow · To what, where: seed
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 (Nothing), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 grow | punct |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 grow | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 grow | aux |
| 4 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sown | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 sown | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 seed | det |
| 8 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sown | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sown | aux:pass |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 sown | advmod |
| 11 | sown | sow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 grow | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | future | Nothing | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not sow a condition, not said to happen | infinitive · passive | the seed | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
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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