In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 181
Great music is a psychical storm, agitating to unimaginable depth the mystery of the past within us.
Who acts: Great music, psychical storm · What happens: be, agitate · To what, where: psychical storm, mystery
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 (Great music, psychical storm), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 music | amod |
| 2 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 storm | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 storm | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 storm | det |
| 5 | psychical | psychical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 storm | amod |
| 6 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 agitating | punct |
| 8 | agitating | agitate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 storm | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 depth | case |
| 10 | unimaginable | unimaginable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 depth | amod |
| 11 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 agitating | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mystery | det |
| 13 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 agitating | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 past | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 past | det |
| 16 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mystery | nmod |
| 17 | within | within | ADP | _ | 18 us | case |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 agitating | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 storm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Great music | a psychical storm | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | agitate | gerund | a psychical storm not said here | the mystery of the past | to unimaginable depth; within us | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mystery=Experiencer |
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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