In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 142
And what, under such circumstances, would have been the Western estimate of Leander?”
What happens: be · To what, where: Western estimate
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 what | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 circumstances | punct |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 circumstances | case |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 circumstances | amod |
| 6 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 what | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 estimate | punct |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 estimate | aux |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 estimate | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 estimate | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 estimate | det |
| 12 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 estimate | amod |
| 13 | estimate | estimate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 circumstances | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Leander | case |
| 15 | Leander | Leander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 estimate | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 circumstances | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would · perfect | the Western estimate | of Leander | 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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