In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 179
Truly the fear and the pain of the dead past speak to us in that dim deep awe which the roar of the sea awakens.
Who acts: roar, sea · What happens: awaken, pain, roar · To what, where: dim deep awe, fear, dead past speak
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 (roar, sea), 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 | Truly | truly | ADV | _ | 3 fear | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fear | det |
| 3 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 pain | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pain | det |
| 6 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fear | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 speak | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 speak | det |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 speak | amod |
| 10 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 speak | amod |
| 11 | speak | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pain | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 us | case |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 speak | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 awe | case |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 awe | nsubj |
| 16 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 awe | amod |
| 17 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 awe | amod |
| 18 | awe | awe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 speak | nmod |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 awakens | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 roar | det |
| 21 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 awakens | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sea | det |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 roar | nmod |
| 25 | awakens | awaken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 awe | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awaken | present | the roar of the sea | dim deep awe that | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pain | the dead past speak to us in dim deep awe that | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | roar | the sea | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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