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In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 4

“I have been thinking,” he said, “about the constancy of the relative proportion of the sexes, and wondering whether Buddhist doctrine furnishes an explanation.

Who acts: Tōkyō, Buddhist doctrine · What happens: think, say, wonder, furnish · To what, where: explanation · 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 (Tōkyō, Buddhist doctrine), 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

punctnsubjauxauxccomppunctpunctnsubjpunctpunctcasedetccompcasedetamodnmodcasedetnmodpunctccadvclmarkamodnsubjadvcldetobjpunctroot“PUNCTIPRONhaveAUXbeenAUXthinkingVERB,PUNCT”PUNCThePRONsaidVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTaboutADPtheDETconstancyNOUNofADPtheDETrelativeADJproportionNOUNofADPtheDETsexesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwonderingVERBwhetherSCONJBuddhistADJdoctrineNOUNfurnishesVERBanDETexplanationNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_5 thinkingpunct
2IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs5 thinkingnsubj
3havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 thinkingaux
4beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part5 thinkingaux
5thinkingthinkVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part9 saidccomp
6,,PUNCT_5 thinkingpunct
7”"PUNCT_5 thinkingpunct
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 saidnsubj
9saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10,,PUNCT_14 constancypunct
11“"PUNCT_14 constancypunct
12aboutaboutADP_14 constancycase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 constancydet
14constancyconstancyNOUNNumber=Sing9 saidccomp
15ofofADP_18 proportioncase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 proportiondet
17relativerelativeADJDegree=Pos18 proportionamod
18proportionproportionNOUNNumber=Sing14 constancynmod
19ofofADP_21 sexescase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 sexesdet
21sexessexNOUNNumber=Plur18 proportionnmod
22,,PUNCT_24 wonderingpunct
23andandCCONJ_24 wonderingcc
24wonderingwonderVERBVerbForm=Ger9 saidadvcl
25whetherwhetherSCONJ_28 furnishesmark
26BuddhistbuddhistADJDegree=Pos27 doctrineamod
27doctrinedoctrineNOUNNumber=Sing28 furnishesnsubj
28furnishesfurnishVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin24 wonderingadvcl
29anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art30 explanationdet
30explanationexplanationNOUNNumber=Sing28 furnishesobj
31..PUNCT_9 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1think speech: other in a quotepresent · perfect · progressiveTōkyōvn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2say speech: assertpastTōkyōthe constancy of the relative proportion of the sexes ccompvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3wonder speech: ask in a quotegerundTōkyō not said herevn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4furnish in a quotepresentBuddhist doctrinea explanationvn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent explanation=Recipient

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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