In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 193

All the gladness and the grief of dead generations come back to haunt us in countless forms of harmony and of melody.

Who acts: gladness · What happens: come back, haunt, form · To what, where: us, countless forms, harmony

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 (gladness), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 gladness	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gladness	det
3	gladness	gladness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 grief	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grief	det
6	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gladness	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 generations	case
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 generations	amod
9	generations	generation	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grief	nmod
10	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 haunt	mark
13	haunt	haunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 come	advcl
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 haunt	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 forms	case
16	countless	countless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 forms	amod
17	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 haunt	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 harmony	case
19	harmony	harmony	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 forms	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 melody	cc
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 melody	case
22	melody	melody	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 harmony	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come back	present	all gladness and the grief of dead generations			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	haunt	to-infinitive	all gladness and the grief of dead generations not said here	us	countless forms of harmony and melody	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer
3	form			harmony and melody		nom form «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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 193

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 193