In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 55
[48] The ignorant and the vicious, not understanding the law of cause-and-effect, do not fear the certain results of their folly.
What happens: not understand, not fear, result · To what, where: law, certain results, 48, folly
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: 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 | _ | 2 48 | punct |
| 2 | 48 | 48 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 48 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ignorant | det |
| 5 | ignorant | ignorant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 48 | appos |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 vicious | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 vicious | det |
| 8 | vicious | vicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ignorant | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 understanding | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 understanding | advmod |
| 11 | understanding | understand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 vicious | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 law | det |
| 13 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 understanding | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 effect | case |
| 15 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 effect | nsubj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 effect | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 effect | cc |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 and | punct |
| 19 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 law | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fear | punct |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 fear | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 fear | advmod |
| 23 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 understanding | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 results | det |
| 25 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 results | amod |
| 26 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fear | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 folly | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 folly | nmod:poss |
| 29 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 results | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 48 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not understand | gerund | the law of effect cause | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer law=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not fear | infinitive · do-support | the certain results of Hades's folly | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer result=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | result | Hades's folly | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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