In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 175
Consonantly to its multiple utterance must respond all waves of immemorial fear that move in the vaster sea of soul-experience.
Who acts: immemorial fear, fear · What happens: respond, move, utter, wave · To what, where: waves, multiple utterance, vaster sea, immemorial fear
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 (immemorial fear, 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 | Consonantly | consonantly | ADV | _ | 7 respond | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 utterance | case |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 utterance | nmod:poss |
| 4 | multiple | multiple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 utterance | amod |
| 5 | utterance | utterance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 respond | obl |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 respond | aux |
| 7 | respond | respond | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 waves | det |
| 9 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 respond | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 fear | case |
| 11 | immemorial | immemorial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fear | amod |
| 12 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 waves | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 move | nsubj |
| 14 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fear | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 17 | vaster | vast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 sea | amod |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 move | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 experience | case |
| 20 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 experience | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 soul | punct |
| 22 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sea | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 respond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respond speech: other | must | all waves of immemorial fear | fear's multiple utterance | consonantly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wave=Topic to utterance=Recipient | |||
| 2 | move | present | immemorial fear | the vaster sea of soul experience | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | utter | fear | nom utterance «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | wave | immemorial fear | nom wave «event 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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