In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 166
At such a moment, one feels indeed as if enveloped by some monstrous sentiency,—suspended within some vital substance that feels and sees and wills alike in every part, an infinite soft cold Ghost.
Who acts: one, vital substance · What happens: feel, envelop, suspend, see, will · To what, where: part
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 (one, vital substance), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 2 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 moment | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feels | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 moment | punct |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 feels | nsubj |
| 7 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 feels | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 enveloped | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 enveloped | mark |
| 11 | enveloped | envelop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 feels | advcl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 sentiency | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 sentiency | det |
| 14 | monstrous | monstrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sentiency | amod |
| 15 | sentiency | sentiency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 enveloped | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 suspended | punct |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 suspended | punct |
| 18 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 feels | conj |
| 19 | within | within | ADP | _ | 22 substance | case |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 substance | det |
| 21 | vital | vital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 substance | amod |
| 22 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 suspended | obl |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 feels | nsubj |
| 24 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 substance | acl:relcl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sees | cc |
| 26 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 feels | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 wills | cc |
| 28 | wills | will | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 feels | conj |
| 29 | alike | alike | ADV | _ | 28 wills | advmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 part | case |
| 31 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 part | det |
| 32 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wills | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Ghost | punct |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 Ghost | det |
| 35 | infinite | infinite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Ghost | amod |
| 36 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Ghost | amod |
| 37 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Ghost | amod |
| 38 | Ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 part | appos |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 feels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | one | moment | indeed property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | envelop | participle | one not said here | by some monstrous sentiency | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | suspend | past | one not said here | within some vital substance | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | feel | present | some vital substance | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | see | present | some vital substance not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | will | present | some vital substance not said here | every part | alike property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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