In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 187
But in music’s larger utterance it is ever the sorrow that makes the undertone,—the surf-mutter of the Sea of Soul….
Who acts: music, sorrow · What happens: be, make, utter, mutter · To what, where: sorrow, larger utterance, undertone, Sea
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 (music, sorrow), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 sorrow | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 utterance | case |
| 3 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 utterance | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 music | case |
| 5 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 utterance | amod |
| 6 | utterance | utterance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sorrow | obl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sorrow | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sorrow | cop |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 sorrow | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sorrow | det |
| 11 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 makes | nsubj |
| 13 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sorrow | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 undertone | det |
| 15 | undertone | undertone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 makes | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mutter | punct |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 mutter | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mutter | det |
| 19 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mutter | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 surf | punct |
| 21 | mutter | mutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 undertone | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Sea | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Sea | det |
| 24 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 mutter | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Soul | case |
| 26 | Soul | Soul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Sea | nmod |
| 27 | …. | .. | PUNCT | _ | 11 sorrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | music | the sorrow | music's larger utterance | ever | tree rules | ||
| 2 | make | present | the sorrow | the undertone | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset undertone=Product | ||||
| 3 | utter | music | nom utterance «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | mutter | the Sea of Soul | nom mutter «event 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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