In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 34
Some humanity higher than our own,—in other worlds,—might be thus evolved.”
What happens: be · To what, where: humanity
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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 humanity | det |
| 2 | humanity | humanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 humanity | amod |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 own | case |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 own | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 higher | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 humanity | punct |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 humanity | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 worlds | case |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 worlds | amod |
| 11 | worlds | world | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 humanity | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 humanity | punct |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 humanity | punct |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 evolved | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 evolved | cop |
| 16 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 17 evolved | advmod |
| 17 | evolved | evolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 humanity | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 humanity | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 humanity | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | might | evolve, thus property | tree rules |
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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