In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 170
Then I found myself thinking of the vague terror with which I had listened, when a child, to the voice of the sea;—and I remembered that in after-years, on different coasts in different parts of the world, the sound of surf had always revived the childish emotion.
Who acts: I, myself · What happens: find, think, listen, remember, revive · To what, where: myself, different coasts, sound
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, myself), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 found | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 found | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 terror | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 terror | det |
| 8 | vague | vague | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 terror | amod |
| 9 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thinking | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 listened | obl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 listened | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 listened | aux |
| 14 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 terror | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 child | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 child | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 child | det |
| 18 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 terror | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 voice | punct |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 voice | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 voice | det |
| 22 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thinking | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 sea | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sea | det |
| 25 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 voice | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
| 27 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 remembered | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 remembered | cc |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 remembered | nsubj |
| 30 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | parataxis |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 years | mark |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 years | case |
| 33 | after | after | ADP | _ | 35 years | case |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 after | punct |
| 35 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 remembered | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 coasts | punct |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 coasts | case |
| 38 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 coasts | amod |
| 39 | coasts | coast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 remembered | obl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 parts | case |
| 41 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 parts | amod |
| 42 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 coasts | nmod |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 world | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 world | det |
| 45 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 parts | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 sound | punct |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 sound | det |
| 48 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 revived | nsubj:pass |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 surf | case |
| 50 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 sound | nmod |
| 51 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 revived | aux |
| 52 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 53 revived | advmod |
| 53 | revived | revive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 remembered | conj |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 emotion | det |
| 55 | childish | childish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 emotion | amod |
| 56 | emotion | emotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 revived | obj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | I | myself | then | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent myself=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | myself not said here | of the vague terror and a child; to the voice of the sea | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | listen | past · perfect | I | with the vague terror and a child | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | remember | past | I | different coasts in different parts of the world | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | revive | past · perfect · passive | the sound of surf | the childish emotion obj; always property | tree rules |
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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