In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 174
And to myself I said:—Is it wonderful that the voice of the sea should make us serious?
Who acts: myself, fear, voice · What happens: say, be, make · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (myself, fear, voice), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 myself | case |
| 3 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 wonderful | punct |
| 8 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 wonderful | cop |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wonderful | nsubj |
| 10 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 make | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 voice | det |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 voice | nmod |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 make | aux |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wonderful | advcl |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 make | obj |
| 20 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 make | xcomp |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | myself | I nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | fear | wonderful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | should | the voice of the sea | us | serious property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset we=Product |
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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