In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 168
Long I lay awake that night, and listened to the thunder-rolls and crashings of the mighty tide.
Who acts: I · What happens: lie, listen
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 (I), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 lay | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lay | xcomp |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 listened | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 listened | cc |
| 9 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 rolls | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rolls | det |
| 12 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rolls | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 thunder | punct |
| 14 | rolls | roll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 listened | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 crashings | cc |
| 16 | crashings | crashing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 rolls | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 tide | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tide | det |
| 19 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tide | amod |
| 20 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 crashings | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | I | night | awake, long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | listen | past | I not said here | to the thunder rolls and crashings of the mighty tide | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to roll=Theme |
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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