In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 10
“But the doctrine that desire is creative does not imply that the individual longing creates its own satisfaction,—quite the contrary.
Who acts: doctrine, individual longing, longing · What happens: be, not imply, create, satisfy · To what, where: doctrine, own satisfaction
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctrine, individual longing, longing), 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 | _ | 11 imply | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 doctrine | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 doctrine | det |
| 4 | doctrine | doctrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 imply | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 desire | det |
| 6 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 doctrine | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 doctrine | cop |
| 8 | creative | creative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 doctrine | amod |
| 9 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 imply | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 imply | advmod |
| 11 | imply | imply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 creates | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 longing | det |
| 14 | individual | individual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 longing | amod |
| 15 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 creates | nsubj |
| 16 | creates | create | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 imply | advcl |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 satisfaction | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 satisfaction | amod |
| 19 | satisfaction | satisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 creates | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 imply | punct |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 imply | punct |
| 22 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 contrary | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 contrary | det |
| 24 | contrary | contrary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 imply | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 imply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the doctrine | that desire nmod:unmarked | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not imply in a quote | present · do-support | the doctrine | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | create in a quote | present | the individual longing | longing's own satisfaction | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satisfaction=Result | ||||
| 4 | satisfy in a quote | longing | nom satisfaction «feeling transitive»: poss=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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