In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 17
“It is not wonderful that you cannot recognize me in this form,” returned the monk: “I am the kite that those cruel boys were tormenting at Kita-no-Ōji.
Who acts: life, you, wonderful, priest, cruel boys · What happens: not be, not recognize, return, be, torment · To what, where: priest, form, monk, kite, Kita
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 (life, you, wonderful, priest), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wonderful | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wonderful | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wonderful | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 wonderful | advmod |
| 5 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 recognize | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 recognize | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 recognize | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 recognize | advmod |
| 10 | recognize | recognize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wonderful | advcl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 recognize | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 form | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 form | det |
| 14 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 recognize | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wonderful | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wonderful | punct |
| 17 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 monk | det |
| 19 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 returned | obj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 kite | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 kite | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 kite | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 kite | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 kite | det |
| 25 | kite | kite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 monk | appos |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 tormenting | obj |
| 27 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 29 boys | det |
| 28 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 boys | amod |
| 29 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 tormenting | nsubj |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 tormenting | aux |
| 31 | tormenting | torment | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 kite | acl:relcl |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 Kita | case |
| 33 | Kita | Kita | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 tormenting | obl |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 Ōji | punct |
| 35 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 37 Ōji | det |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 no | punct |
| 37 | Ōji | Ōji | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Kita | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | life | wonderful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not recognize in a quote | can | you | the priest = priest | this form | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | return | past | wonderful | the monk | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monk=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | the priest = priest | the kite | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | torment in a quote | past · progressive | that cruel boys | the kite | Kita and no Ōji | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer |
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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