In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 33
But a being complete would be both perfect man and perfect woman, possessing the highest faculties of both sexes, with the weaknesses of neither.
Who acts: complete, perfect man · What happens: be, possess · To what, where: perfect man, highest faculties
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 (complete, perfect man), 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 | _ | 9 man | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 complete | det |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 complete | cop |
| 4 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 man | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 man | cop |
| 7 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 man | det |
| 8 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 woman | cc |
| 11 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 man | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 possessing | punct |
| 14 | possessing | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 man | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 faculties | det |
| 16 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 faculties | amod |
| 17 | faculties | faculty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 possessing | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sexes | case |
| 19 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 sexes | det |
| 20 | sexes | sex | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 faculties | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 weaknesses | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 weaknesses | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 weaknesses | det |
| 24 | weaknesses | weakness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 possessing | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 neither | case |
| 26 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 weaknesses | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | complete property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | would | a complete | both perfect man and perfect woman | perfect woman conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | possess | gerund | both perfect man and perfect woman not said here | the highest faculties of both sexes | with the weaknesses of neither | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot faculty=Theme |
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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