In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 55
Probably we shall sorrow more than you will sorrow because of your having to leave what the Buddha so truly termed ‘this burning-house of the world.
Who acts: we, you, your · What happens: sorrow, have, leave, term · To what, where: more, burning house
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 (we, you, your), 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 | Probably | probably | ADV | _ | 4 sorrow | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sorrow | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorrow | aux |
| 4 | sorrow | sorrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 sorrow | obj |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 sorrow | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 sorrow | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 sorrow | aux |
| 9 | sorrow | sorrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 more | advcl |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 having | mark |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 because | fixed |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 having | nsubj |
| 13 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 sorrow | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 leave | mark |
| 15 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 having | xcomp |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 leave | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Buddha | det |
| 18 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 what | nsubj |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 termed | advmod |
| 20 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 21 termed | advmod |
| 21 | termed | term | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 what | acl:relcl |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 house | punct |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 house | det |
| 24 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 house | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 burning | punct |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 termed | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 world | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 world | det |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 house | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sorrow | shall | we | more | probably property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sorrow | future | you | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | have | gerund | your | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | leave | to-infinitive | your not said here | what the Buddha obj | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ||||
| 5 | term | participle | this burning house of the world | truly property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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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