In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 107
This was not because the fingers held: it was because the flesh of the palms had united itself in some inexplicable manner to the flesh of the breasts!
Who acts: This · What happens: not be, unite · To what, where: effort, inexplicable manner
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 held | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 held | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 held | advmod |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 held | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fingers | det |
| 6 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 held | nsubj |
| 7 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 united | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 united | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 united | aux:pass |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 united | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 flesh | det |
| 13 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 united | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 palms | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 palms | det |
| 16 | palms | palm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 flesh | nmod |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 united | aux |
| 18 | united | unite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 held | advcl |
| 19 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 united | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 manner | case |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 manner | det |
| 22 | inexplicable | inexplicable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 manner | amod |
| 23 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 united | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 flesh | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 flesh | det |
| 26 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 united | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 breasts | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 breasts | det |
| 29 | breasts | breast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 flesh | nmod |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | This | the fingers nsubj; hold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | unite | past · perfect · passive | effort | some inexplicable manner | to the flesh of the breasts | 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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