In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 133
But when fisher-folk swim like that, it is only to save their lives.”
Who acts: fisher folk, folk · What happens: swim, be
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 (fisher folk, folk), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 save | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 swim | mark |
| 3 | fisher | fisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 folk | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 fisher | punct |
| 5 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swim | nsubj |
| 6 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 save | advcl |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 swim | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 swim | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 save | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 save | cop |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 save | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 save | mark |
| 14 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 lives | nmod:poss |
| 16 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 save | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 save | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | present | fisher folk | like that | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | folk | children's lives obj; save property | tree rules |
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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