In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 178
Wherefore there is surely more than a little truth in the ancient belief that the speech of the dead is the roar of the sea.
Who acts: more, speech · What happens: be · To what, where: roar
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 (more, speech), 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 | Wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 is | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 truth | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 truth | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 truth | amod |
| 9 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 more | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 belief | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 belief | det |
| 12 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 belief | amod |
| 13 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 truth | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 roar | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 speech | det |
| 16 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 roar | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 dead | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dead | det |
| 19 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 speech | nmod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 roar | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 roar | det |
| 22 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 belief | acl |
| 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 roar | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | more than a little truth in the ancient belief | there | wherefore property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the speech of the dead | the roar | of the sea | 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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