In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 20
“The happiness or unhappiness of the new existence would not be decided by sex alone: it would of necessity depend upon many conditions in combination.”
Who acts: sex · What happens: not decide, depend · To what, where: happiness, combination
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 (sex), 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 | _ | 13 decided | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 happiness | det |
| 3 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 decided | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 unhappiness | cc |
| 5 | unhappiness | unhappiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happiness | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 existence | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 existence | det |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 existence | amod |
| 9 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happiness | nmod |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 decided | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 decided | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 decided | aux:pass |
| 13 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 depend | advcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 sex | case |
| 15 | sex | sex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 decided | obl |
| 16 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 15 sex | advmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 would | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 would | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 depend | aux |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 necessity | case |
| 21 | necessity | necessity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 would | obl |
| 22 | depend | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 conditions | case |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 conditions | amod |
| 25 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 depend | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 combination | case |
| 27 | combination | combination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 depend | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 depend | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 depend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not decide in a quote | would · passive | sex | the happiness of the new existence or unhappiness | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | depend in a quote | would | combination | upon many conditions | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=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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