In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 111

Are not we ourselves as lanterns launched upon a deeper and a dimmer sea, and ever separating further and further one from another as we drift to the inevitable dissolution?

Who acts: we, lanterns · What happens: not be, launch, separate, drift · To what, where: ourselves, lanterns, deeper dimmer sea, inevitable dissolution

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu[1]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, lanterns), 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	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ourselves	cop
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 ourselves	advmod
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 ourselves	nsubj
4	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 separating	mark
6	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 separating	nsubj
7	launched	launch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lanterns	acl
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 sea	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sea	det
10	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 sea	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sea	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sea	det
13	dimmer	dim	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 sea	amod
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 launched	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 separating	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 separating	cc
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 separating	advmod
18	separating	separate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 ourselves	advcl
19	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 separating	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 further	cc
21	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 further	conj
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 further	obj
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 another	case
24	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 further	obl
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 drift	mark
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 drift	nsubj
27	drift	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 separating	advcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 dissolution	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 dissolution	det
30	inevitable	inevitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 dissolution	amod
31	dissolution	dissolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drift	obl
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ourselves	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	we	ourselves				tree rules
2	launch	participle		lanterns not said here	a deeper dimmer sea			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent upon sea=Destination
3	separate	gerund	lanterns			ever	far property	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	drift	present	we		the inevitable dissolution			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to dissolution=Destination

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, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 111

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 111