In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 76
[52] Notwithstanding the legend that only the cat and the _mamushi_ (a poisonous viper) failed to weep for the death of the Buddha.
Who acts: cat, Buddha · What happens: notwithstand, fail, not weep, die · To what, where: legend, 52
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 (cat, Buddha), 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 52 | punct |
| 2 | 52 | 52 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 52 | punct |
| 4 | Notwithstanding | notwithstand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 52 | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 legend | det |
| 6 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Notwithstanding | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 failed | obj |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 cat | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cat | det |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 failed | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mamushi | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mamushi | det |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 mamushi | punct |
| 14 | mamushi | mamushi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cat | conj |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 cat | punct |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 viper | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 viper | det |
| 18 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 viper | amod |
| 19 | viper | viper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cat | appos |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 viper | punct |
| 21 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 legend | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 weep | mark |
| 23 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 failed | xcomp |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 death | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 death | det |
| 26 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 weep | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Buddha | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Buddha | det |
| 29 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 death | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 52 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notwithstand | gerund | the legend | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fail | past | the cat and the mamushi | the legend | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not weep | to-infinitive | the cat and the mamushi not said here | for the death of the Buddha | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | die | the Buddha | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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