In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 23
“Such a one,” he replied, “would be reborn neither as man nor as woman,—providing there were no pre-existent karma powerful enough to check or to weaken the results of the self-conquest.”
Who acts: one, pre-existent karma · What happens: reply, be, provide, check, weaken, result · To what, where: results, self conquest · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (one, pre-existent karma), 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 one | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reborn | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 reborn | punct |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 reborn | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 reborn | cop |
| 13 | reborn | reborn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 replied | conj |
| 14 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 13 reborn | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reborn | obl |
| 17 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 woman | cc |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 woman | case |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 providing | punct |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 providing | punct |
| 22 | providing | provide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 replied | advcl |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 were | expl |
| 24 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 providing | ccomp |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 karma | det |
| 26 | pre-existent | pre-existent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 karma | amod |
| 27 | karma | karma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 were | nsubj |
| 28 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 karma | amod |
| 29 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 28 powerful | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 check | mark |
| 31 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 powerful | advcl |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 weaken | cc |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 weaken | mark |
| 34 | weaken | weaken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 check | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 results | det |
| 36 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 weaken | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 conquest | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 conquest | det |
| 39 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 conquest | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 self | punct |
| 41 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 results | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | such one | person nsubj | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | would | such one not said here | as man nor woman; neither, reborn property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | provide in a quote | gerund | such one not said here | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be in a quote | past | no pre-existent karma | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | check in a quote | to-infinitive | no pre-existent karma not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | weaken in a quote | to-infinitive | no pre-existent karma not said here | the results of the self conquest | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent result=Patient | ||||
| 7 | result in a quote | the self conquest | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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