In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 172
But presently there came to me the conviction that fear of the sea alone could represent but one element of the multitudinous awe awakened by its voice.
Who acts: fear · What happens: come, represent, awaken, fear · To what, where: conviction, me, multitudinous awe, sea
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 (fear), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 came | cc |
| 2 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 there | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 conviction | det |
| 8 | conviction | conviction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 represent | obj |
| 10 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 represent | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fear | nmod |
| 14 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 10 fear | advmod |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 represent | aux |
| 16 | represent | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 conviction | acl:relcl |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 element | cc |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 element | nummod |
| 19 | element | element | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 represent | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 awe | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 awe | det |
| 22 | multitudinous | multitudinous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 awe | amod |
| 23 | awe | awe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 element | nmod |
| 24 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 awe | acl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 voice | case |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 voice | nmod:poss |
| 27 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 awakened | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the conviction | me | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | represent | could | fear of the sea | the conviction | one element of the multitudinous awe conj | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | |||
| 3 | awaken | participle | the multitudinous awe not said here | by fear's voice | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by voice=Location | ||||
| 4 | fear | the sea | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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