In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 163
But the primitive fancy may be roused even more strongly in darkness than by daylight.
What happens: rouse · To what, where: primitive fancy, darkness
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 roused | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fancy | det |
| 3 | primitive | primitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fancy | amod |
| 4 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 roused | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 roused | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 roused | aux:pass |
| 7 | roused | rouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 strongly | advmod |
| 10 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 7 roused | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 darkness | case |
| 12 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 roused | obl |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 daylight | case |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 daylight | case |
| 15 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 roused | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 roused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rouse | may · passive | the primitive fancy | darkness | than daylight; strongly property | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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