In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 124
But the evil karma that had rendered such an affliction possible could not soon be exhausted.
What happens: render, not exhaust · To what, where: evil karma, affliction
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 rendered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 karma | det |
| 3 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 karma | amod |
| 4 | karma | karma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rendered | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 rendered | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rendered | aux |
| 7 | rendered | render | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 affliction | det:predet |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 affliction | det |
| 10 | affliction | affliction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 exhausted | obl |
| 11 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 affliction | amod |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 exhausted | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 exhausted | advmod |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 exhausted | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 exhausted | aux:pass |
| 16 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 rendered | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rendered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | render | past · perfect · passive | the evil karma | that nsubj:pass | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not exhaust | could · passive | such affliction | soon property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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