In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 183
There are tones that call up all ghosts of youth and joy and tenderness;—there are tones that evoke all phantom pain of perished passion;—there are tones that resurrect all dead sensations of majesty and might and glory,—all expired exultations,—all forgotten magnanimities.
Who acts: tones · What happens: be, call up, evoke, perish, resurrect, forget · To what, where: ghosts, phantom pain, dead sensations, youth, perished passion, majesty
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 (tones), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 call | nsubj |
| 5 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tones | acl:relcl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 call | compound:prt |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 ghosts | det |
| 8 | ghosts | ghost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 call | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 youth | case |
| 10 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ghosts | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 joy | cc |
| 12 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 youth | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tenderness | cc |
| 14 | tenderness | tenderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 youth | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 are | punct |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 are | expl |
| 18 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 are | conj |
| 19 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 are | nsubj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 evoke | nsubj |
| 21 | evoke | evoke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 tones | acl:relcl |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 pain | det |
| 23 | phantom | phantom | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 pain | amod |
| 24 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 evoke | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 passion | case |
| 26 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 passion | amod |
| 27 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pain | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
| 29 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 are | punct |
| 30 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 31 are | expl |
| 31 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 are | parataxis |
| 32 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 are | nsubj |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 resurrect | nsubj |
| 34 | resurrect | resurrect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 tones | acl:relcl |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 sensations | det |
| 36 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 sensations | amod |
| 37 | sensations | sensation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 resurrect | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 majesty | case |
| 39 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 sensations | nmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 glory | cc |
| 41 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 glory | aux |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 glory | cc |
| 43 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 resurrect | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 exultations | punct |
| 45 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 exultations | punct |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 exultations | det |
| 47 | expired | expired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 exultations | amod |
| 48 | exultations | exultation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 tones | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 magnanimities | punct |
| 50 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 53 magnanimities | punct |
| 51 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 53 magnanimities | det |
| 52 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 53 magnanimities | amod |
| 53 | magnanimities | magnanimity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 tones | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | tones | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call up speech: assert | present | tones | all ghosts of youth and joy and tenderness | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ghost=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | does | present | tones | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | evoke | present | tones | all phantom pain of perished passion | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | perish | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | does | present | tones and all expired exultations and all forgotten magnanimities | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | resurrect | present | tones and all expired exultations and all forgotten magnanimities | all dead sensations of majesty | glory conj | tree rules | |||
| 8 | forget | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | ghost | youth and joy and tenderness | nom ghost «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 10 | pain | perished passion | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 11 | sense | majesty | nom sensation «cognition 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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