In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 186
Pleasure and pain: they commingle always in great music; and therefore it is that music can move us more profoundly than the voice of ocean or than any other voice can do.
Who acts: Substances, music, voice · What happens: commingle, be, move, do · To what, where: great music, music, us, Pleasure
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 (Substances, music, voice), 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 | Pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 pain | cc |
| 3 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pleasure | conj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 commingle | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 commingle | nsubj |
| 6 | commingle | commingle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pleasure | conj |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 commingle | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 music | case |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 music | amod |
| 10 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 commingle | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 move | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 move | cc |
| 13 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 17 music | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 music | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 music | cop |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 music | mark |
| 17 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 move | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 move | aux |
| 19 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Pleasure | parataxis |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 move | obj |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 profoundly | advmod |
| 22 | profoundly | profoundly | ADV | _ | 25 voice | advmod |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 voice | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 voice | det |
| 25 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 do | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 ocean | case |
| 27 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 voice | nmod |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 voice | cc |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 32 voice | case |
| 30 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 voice | det |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 voice | amod |
| 32 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 voice | conj |
| 33 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 do | aux |
| 34 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 move | parataxis |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pleasure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commingle | present | Substances = substance | great music | always property | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | music | music | therefore property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | move | can | music | us | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme we=Result | ||||
| 4 | do | can | the voice of ocean or any other voice | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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