In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 114
A faint cold thrill passed over me,—perhaps some chill uprising from the depths,—perhaps the creeping only of a ghostly fancy.
Who acts: some · What happens: pass, chill, upris, creep · To what, where: faint cold thrill, depths
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 (some), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 thrill | det |
| 2 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thrill | amod |
| 3 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thrill | amod |
| 4 | thrill | thrill | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thrill | acl |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 passed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thrill | punct |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 chill | punct |
| 10 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 12 chill | advmod |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 chill | nsubj |
| 12 | chill | chill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thrill | conj |
| 13 | uprising | upris | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 chill | xcomp |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 depths | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 depths | det |
| 16 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 uprising | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fancy | punct |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 fancy | punct |
| 19 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 26 fancy | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fancy | det |
| 21 | creeping | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 fancy | nsubj |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 fancy | advmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 fancy | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 fancy | det |
| 25 | ghostly | ghostly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fancy | amod |
| 26 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chill | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thrill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | a faint cold thrill not said here | over me | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over i=Location | ||||
| 2 | chill | present | some | of the ghostly fancy; perhaps property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | upris | gerund | some not said here | the depths | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | creep | gerund | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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