In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 98
[3] In Japanese poetry and proverbial phraseology, the physical beauty of a woman is compared to the cherry-flower; while feminine moral beauty is compared to the plum-flower.
What happens: compare · To what, where: physical beauty, feminine moral beauty, 3
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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 3 | punct |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 3 | punct |
| 4 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 poetry | case |
| 5 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 poetry | amod |
| 6 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 3 | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 phraseology | cc |
| 8 | proverbial | proverbial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 phraseology | amod |
| 9 | phraseology | phraseology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 poetry | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beauty | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beauty | det |
| 12 | physical | physical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beauty | amod |
| 13 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 phraseology | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 woman | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 compared | obl |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 compared | aux:pass |
| 18 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 beauty | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 flower | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 flower | det |
| 21 | cherry | cherry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flower | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 cherry | punct |
| 23 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 compared | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 compared | punct |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 30 compared | mark |
| 26 | feminine | feminine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 beauty | amod |
| 27 | moral | moral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 beauty | amod |
| 28 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 compared | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 compared | aux:pass |
| 30 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 compared | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 flower | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 flower | det |
| 33 | plum | plum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 flower | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 plum | punct |
| 35 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 compared | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 3 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | present · passive | the physical beauty not said here | of a woman; to the cherry flower | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle» | ||||
| 2 | compare | present · passive | feminine moral beauty | to the plum flower | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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