In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 165

Dive into such a night-sea;—open your eyes in the black-blue gloom, and watch the weird gush of lights that follow your every motion: each luminous point, as seen through the flood, like the opening and closing of an eye!

Who acts: you, lights, your · What happens: dive, open, watch, follow, see, gush · To what, where: luminous point, night sea, eyes, blue gloom, weird gush, motion

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 (you, lights, your), 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	Dive	dive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	7 sea	case
3	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	7 sea	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sea	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sea	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 night	punct
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dive	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 open	punct
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 open	punct
10	open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Dive	conj
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eyes	nmod:poss
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 open	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	18 gloom	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gloom	det
15	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 blue	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 black	punct
17	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 gloom	amod
18	gloom	gloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 open	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 watch	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 watch	cc
21	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Dive	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 gush	det
23	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 gush	amod
24	gush	gush	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 watch	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 lights	case
26	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 gush	nmod
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 follow	nsubj
28	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 lights	acl:relcl
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 motion	nmod:poss
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 motion	det
31	motion	motion	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 follow	obj
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 point	punct
33	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	35 point	det
34	luminous	luminous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 point	amod
35	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dive	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 seen	punct
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 seen	mark
38	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 point	acl
39	through	through	ADP	_	41 flood	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 flood	det
41	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 seen	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 opening	punct
43	like	like	ADP	_	45 opening	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 opening	det
45	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 point	appos
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 closing	cc
47	closing	closing	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 opening	conj
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 eye	case
49	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 eye	det
50	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 opening	nmod
51	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Dive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	dive	imperative	you not said here	each luminous point	such night sea	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sea=Location
2	open	infinitive	you not said here	your eyes	the blue gloom	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme in gloom=Location
3	watch	infinitive	you not said here	the weird gush of lights		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gush=Theme
4	follow	present	lights	your motion		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motion=Theme
5	see	participle		each luminous point not said here	the flood	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	gush		lights			nom gush «event intransitive»: of=agent
7	motion		your			nom motion «communication 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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 165

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In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 165