In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 36

“Those texts,” he interrupted, “refer to imperfect beings—less than man and less than woman: they could not refer to the condition that I have been supposing….

Who acts: texts, condition · What happens: interrupt, refer, not refer, suppose · 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 (texts, condition), 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	_	7 interrupted	punct
2	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 texts	det
3	texts	text	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 interrupted	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 texts	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 texts	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 interrupted	nsubj
7	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 refer	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 refer	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 refer	punct
10	refer	refer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 interrupted	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 beings	case
12	imperfect	imperfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 beings	amod
13	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 refer	obl
14	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 less	punct
15	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 refer	parataxis
16	than	than	ADP	_	17 man	case
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 less	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 woman	cc
19	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	21 woman	advmod
20	than	than	ADP	_	19 less	fixed
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 man	conj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 interrupted	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 refer	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 refer	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 refer	advmod
26	refer	refer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 condition	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 condition	det
29	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 refer	obl
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 supposing	nsubj
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 supposing	nsubj
32	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 supposing	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 supposing	aux
34	supposing	suppose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 condition	acl:relcl
35	….	..	PUNCT	_	26 refer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	interrupt	past	that texts	Saddharma nsubj	tree rules
2	refer in a quote	infinitive	that texts not said here	to imperfect beings	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to being=Co-Theme
3	not refer in a quote	could	texts = text	to the condition	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to condition=Co-Theme
4	suppose in a quote	present · perfect · progressive	the condition	I nsubj	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: 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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 36

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 36