In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 190
Wherefore they could not desire to hush the tones of pain: it would spoil their music!
Who acts: gods, life · What happens: not desire, hush, spoil, intonate · To what, where: tones, music, pain
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 (gods, 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 | Wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 desire | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 desire | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 desire | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 desire | advmod |
| 5 | desire | desire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hush | mark |
| 7 | hush | hush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 desire | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tones | det |
| 9 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hush | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 pain | case |
| 11 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tones | nmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 spoil | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 spoil | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 spoil | aux |
| 15 | spoil | spoil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 desire | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 music | nmod:poss |
| 17 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spoil | obj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 desire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not desire | could | gods = god | wherefore property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hush not said to happen | to-infinitive | gods = god not said here | the tones of pain | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tone=Patient | ||||
| 3 | spoil | would | life | gods's music | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | intonate | pain | nom tone «communication 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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