In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 155
And probably no mortal ever watched the ocean-roll or heard its thunder without feeling serious.
Who acts: mortal · What happens: watch, hear, feel, thunder · To what, where: ocean roll, thunder
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 (mortal), 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 | _ | 6 watched | cc |
| 2 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 6 watched | advmod |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 mortal | det |
| 4 | mortal | mortal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 watched | nsubj |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 watched | advmod |
| 6 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 roll | det |
| 8 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roll | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 ocean | punct |
| 10 | roll | roll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 watched | obj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 heard | cc |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 watched | conj |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 thunder | nmod:poss |
| 14 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obj |
| 15 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 16 feeling | mark |
| 16 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 heard | advcl |
| 17 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feeling | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | no mortal | the ocean roll | ever | probably property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roll=Theme | ||
| 2 | hear | past | no mortal not said here | mortal's thunder | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thunder=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | feel | gerund | no mortal not said here | serious property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | thunder | mortal | nom thunder «event intransitive»: poss=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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