In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 182
Or we might say that it is a prodigious incantation, every different instrument and voice making separate appeal to different billions of prenatal memories.
Who acts: we, music · What happens: say, be, make · To what, where: prodigious incantation, separate appeal · 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 (we, music), 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 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 say | cc |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 incantation | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 incantation | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 incantation | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 incantation | det |
| 9 | prodigious | prodigious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 incantation | amod |
| 10 | incantation | incantation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 instrument | punct |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 instrument | det |
| 13 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 instrument | amod |
| 14 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 incantation | appos |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 voice | cc |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 instrument | conj |
| 17 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 say | advcl |
| 18 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 appeal | amod |
| 19 | appeal | appeal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 making | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 billions | case |
| 21 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 billions | amod |
| 22 | billions | billion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 making | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 memories | case |
| 24 | prenatal | prenatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 memories | amod |
| 25 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 billions | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | might | we | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | music | a prodigious incantation | every different instrument and voice appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | make | gerund | we not said here | separate appeal | to different billions of prenatal memories | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset appeal=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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