In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 164
How living seem the smoulderings and the flashings of the tide on nights of phosphorescence!—how reptilian the subtle shifting of the tints of its chilly flame!
Who acts: reptilian, tide · What happens: live, seem, shifting, flash, flame · To what, where: smoulderings
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 (reptilian, tide), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 seem | advmod |
| 2 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 seem | nsubj |
| 3 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 smoulderings | det |
| 5 | smoulderings | smouldering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seem | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 flashings | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flashings | det |
| 8 | flashings | flashing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 smoulderings | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tide | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tide | det |
| 11 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flashings | nmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 nights | case |
| 13 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tide | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 phosphorescence | case |
| 15 | phosphorescence | phosphorescence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nights | nmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 smoulderings | punct |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 shifting | punct |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 shifting | advmod |
| 19 | reptilian | reptilian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shifting | nsubj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shifting | det |
| 21 | subtle | subtle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 shifting | amod |
| 22 | shifting | shifting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seem | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 tints | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tints | det |
| 25 | tints | tint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 shifting | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 flame | case |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 flame | nmod:poss |
| 28 | chilly | chilly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 flame | amod |
| 29 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tints | nmod |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | seem | present | the smoulderings and the flashings of the tide on nights of phosphorescence | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme smouldering=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | shifting | reptilian | of the tints of reptilian's chilly flame | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | flash | the tide on nights of phosphorescence | nom flashing «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | flame | reptilian | nom flame «process 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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