In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 25
Never a day passes in which this regret does not come to me, in the hour of morning or of evening prayer.
Who acts: day, regret · What happens: not pass, not come · To what, where: me
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 (day, regret), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 passes | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passes | nsubj |
| 4 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 come | obl |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 regret | det |
| 8 | regret | regret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | nsubj |
| 9 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 come | advmod |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 passes | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 come | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hour | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hour | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hour | det |
| 17 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 morning | case |
| 19 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hour | nmod |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 prayer | cc |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 prayer | case |
| 22 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 prayer | compound |
| 23 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hour | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pass | present | a day | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not come | present · do-support | this regret | me | hour | which obl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location |
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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