In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 17
And the insatiable desire represented by this ideal would of itself suffice to create the masculine or the feminine body of the next existence.”
Who acts: insatiable desire · What happens: represent, suffice, create · To what, where: insatiable desire, masculine
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 (insatiable desire), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 suffice | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 desire | det |
| 3 | insatiable | insatiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 desire | amod |
| 4 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 suffice | nsubj |
| 5 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 desire | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 ideal | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 ideal | det |
| 8 | ideal | ideal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 represented | obl |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 suffice | aux |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 itself | case |
| 11 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 suffice | obl |
| 12 | suffice | suffice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 create | mark |
| 14 | create | create | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 suffice | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 masculine | det |
| 16 | masculine | masculine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 create | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 body | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 body | det |
| 19 | feminine | feminine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 body | amod |
| 20 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 masculine | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 existence | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 existence | det |
| 23 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 existence | amod |
| 24 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 body | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 suffice | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 suffice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | participle | the insatiable desire not said here | by this ideal | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | suffice | would | the insatiable desire | of ideal | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | create | to-infinitive | the insatiable desire not said here | the masculine or the feminine body of the next existence | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent masculine=Result |
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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