In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 61
Why, indeed, should I turn away from the one true Path at the very moment of my death?…
Who acts: I, my · What happens: turn away, die · To what, where: one true Path
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 (I, my), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 turn | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 1 Why | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 turn | aux |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 turn | nsubj |
| 7 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 turn | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 Path | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Path | det |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 Path | nummod |
| 12 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Path | amod |
| 13 | Path | Path | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 turn | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 moment | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 moment | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 moment | advmod |
| 17 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turn | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 death | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 death | nmod:poss |
| 20 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 moment | nmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 turn | punct |
| 22 | … | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn away | should | I | the one true Path | moment | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from path=Source | ||
| 2 | die | my | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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