In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 184
Well may the influence of music seem inexplicable to the man who idly dreams that his life began less than a hundred years ago!
Who acts: man, life · What happens: be, dream, begin
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 (man, life), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 inexplicable | discourse |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 seem | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 influence | det |
| 4 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seem | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 music | case |
| 6 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 influence | nmod |
| 7 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 inexplicable | cop |
| 8 | inexplicable | inexplicable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 man | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 inexplicable | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 dreams | nsubj |
| 13 | idly | idly | ADV | _ | 14 dreams | advmod |
| 14 | dreams | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 man | acl:relcl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 began | mark |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 life | nmod:poss |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 began | nsubj |
| 18 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dreams | advcl |
| 19 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 22 hundred | advmod |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 less | fixed |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 hundred | det |
| 22 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 years | nummod |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 18 began | advmod |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 inexplicable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | to the man; inexplicable property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | dream | present | the man | idly property | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | influence's life | ago property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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