In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 112

Soon the thought-light in each burns itself out: then the poor frames, and all that is left of their once fair colors, must melt forever into the colorless Void.

Who acts: thought light · What happens: burn out, leave, melt · To what, where: light, that, colorless Void

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 (thought light), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 burns	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 light	det
3	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 light	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 burns	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 each	case
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 light	nmod
8	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 burns	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	8 burns	compound:prt
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 frames	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 frames	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 frames	det
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 frames	amod
15	frames	frame	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 burns	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 left	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 left	cc
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 that	det:predet
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 left	nsubj:pass
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 left	aux:pass
21	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 burns	parataxis
22	of	of	ADP	_	26 colors	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 colors	nmod:poss
24	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 fair	advmod
25	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 colors	amod
26	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 left	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 melt	punct
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 melt	aux
29	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 left	conj
30	forever	forever	ADV	_	29 melt	advmod
31	into	into	ADP	_	34 Void	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Void	det
33	colorless	colorless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Void	amod
34	Void	Void	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 melt	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 burns	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	burn out	present	the thought light in each	light		the poor frames obl; soon property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
2	leave	present · passive		that		of frames's fair colors	vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of color=Destination
3	melt	must			the colorless Void	forever property	vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into void=Product

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 112

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 112