In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 95
_ Even a devil [is pretty] at eighteen.
What happens: be · To what, where: devil
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 | _ | 4 devil | punct |
| 2 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 4 devil | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 devil | det |
| 4 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 7 pretty | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 pretty | cop |
| 7 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 4 devil | advmod |
| 8 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 7 pretty | punct |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 eighteen | case |
| 10 | eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 devil | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 devil | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | pretty property | tree rules |
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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