In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 115
Old superstitions of the coast recurred to me,—old vague warnings of peril in the time of the passage of Souls.
Who acts: Souls · What happens: recur, warn, pass · To what, where: Old superstitions, me, old vague warnings, peril
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 (Souls), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 superstitions | amod |
| 2 | superstitions | superstition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 warnings | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 coast | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 coast | det |
| 5 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 superstitions | nmod |
| 6 | recurred | recur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 superstitions | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 recurred | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 superstitions | punct |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 warnings | punct |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 warnings | amod |
| 12 | vague | vague | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 warnings | amod |
| 13 | warnings | warning | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 peril | case |
| 15 | peril | peril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 warnings | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 warnings | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 passage | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 passage | det |
| 21 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 time | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Souls | case |
| 23 | Souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 passage | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 warnings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recur | participle | Old superstitions of the coast not said here | me | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | warn | peril | in the time of the passage of Souls | nom warning «communication transitive»: of=patient in=obl | |||||
| 4 | pass | Souls | nom passage «act intransitive»: of=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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