In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 139
But one dark night the light was neglected—or blown out; and she lost her way, and was drowned….
Who acts: daughter · What happens: neglect, blow out, lose, drown · To what, where: light, way
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 (daughter), 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 | _ | 8 neglected | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 night | nummod |
| 3 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 night | amod |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 neglected | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 light | det |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 neglected | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 neglected | aux:pass |
| 8 | neglected | neglect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 neglected | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 blown | cc |
| 11 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 neglected | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 blown | compound:prt |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 lost | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lost | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lost | nsubj |
| 16 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 neglected | parataxis |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 way | nmod:poss |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lost | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 drowned | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 drowned | cc |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 drowned | aux:pass |
| 22 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 lost | conj |
| 23 | …. | .. | PUNCT | _ | 8 neglected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | neglect | past · passive | the light | night | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | blow out | participle | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | lose | past | daughter | daughter's way | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | drown | past · passive | daughter not said here | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |
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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