In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 188
Strange to think how vast the sum of joy and woe that must have been experienced before the sense of music could evolve in the brain of man!
Who acts: sum · What happens: think, experience, evolve, sum, sense · To what, where: joy, brain, music · 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 (sum), 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 | Strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 think | mark |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Strange | advcl |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 vast | advmod |
| 5 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 evolve | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sum | det |
| 7 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 evolve | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 joy | case |
| 9 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sum | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 woe | cc |
| 11 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 joy | conj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 experienced | obj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 experienced | aux |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 experienced | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 experienced | aux:pass |
| 16 | experienced | experience | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 joy | acl:relcl |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 sense | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sense | det |
| 19 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 experienced | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 music | case |
| 21 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sense | nmod |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 evolve | aux |
| 23 | evolve | evolve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 think | ccomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 brain | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 brain | det |
| 26 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 evolve | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 man | case |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 brain | nmod |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Strange | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | experience | must · perfect · passive | joy and woe | before the sense of music | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: that=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | evolve | could | the sum of joy and woe | the brain of man | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in brain=Location | ||||
| 5 | sum | joy and woe | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | sense | music | nom sense «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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