In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 192

And in one way we ourselves are as Gods,—since it is only the sum of the pains and the joys of past lives innumerable that makes for us, through memory organic, the ecstasy of music.

Who acts: we, way, that · What happens: be, make, joy · To what, where: sum, one way, past lives

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 (we, way, that), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 way	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 way	case
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 way	nummod
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 Gods	nsubj
6	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 we	nmod
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Gods	cop
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 Gods	case
9	Gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 way	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sum	punct
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 sum	punct
12	since	since	SCONJ	_	17 sum	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sum	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sum	cop
15	only	only	ADV	_	17 sum	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sum	det
17	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Gods	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 pains	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pains	det
20	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sum	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 joys	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 joys	det
23	joys	joy	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 pains	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 lives	case
25	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 lives	amod
26	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 joys	nmod
27	innumerable	innumerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pains	conj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 makes	nsubj
29	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sum	parataxis
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 us	case
31	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 makes	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 organic	punct
33	through	through	ADP	_	35 organic	case
34	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 organic	compound
35	organic	organic	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 makes	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ecstasy	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 ecstasy	det
38	ecstasy	ecstasy	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 organic	appos
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 music	case
40	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ecstasy	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	we		as Gods and the sum	tree rules
2	is a	present	way	the sum	of the pains and the joys of past lives	tree rules
3	make	present	that		for us; memory organic parataxis	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for we=Beneficiary
5	joy			past lives		nom joy «feeling 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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 192

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 192