In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 80
[53] Only during sleep can we sometimes cease to know the sorrow and pain of this world.
Who acts: 53 · What happens: cease, know, pain · To what, where: sorrow, world
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 (53), 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 53 | punct |
| 2 | 53 | 53 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 cease | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 53 | punct |
| 4 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 6 sleep | advmod |
| 5 | during | during | ADP | _ | 6 sleep | case |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 53 | nmod |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 cease | aux |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 cease | nsubj |
| 9 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 cease | advmod |
| 10 | cease | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 know | mark |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cease | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sorrow | det |
| 14 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 know | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pain | cc |
| 16 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sorrow | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 world | det |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pain | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cease | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | can | 53 during sleep | we nsubj; sometimes property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | 53 during sleep not said here | the sorrow and pain of this world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sorrow=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | pain | this world | nom pain «state 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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