In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 26
Ah, my friend! if it were possible to conquer Time and Space, like the Bodhisattvas, so that I could look upon that marvellous assembly, how happy should I be!”
Who acts: it, I · What happens: be, conquer, look · To what, where: Time
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 (it, I), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 9 possible | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friend | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ah | conj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 possible | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 possible | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 possible | cop |
| 9 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 conquer | mark |
| 11 | conquer | conquer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 possible | csubj |
| 12 | Time | Time | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 conquer | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Space | cc |
| 14 | Space | Space | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Time | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Bodhisattvas | punct |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 Bodhisattvas | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Bodhisattvas | det |
| 18 | Bodhisattvas | Bodhisattva | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 conquer | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 look | punct |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 24 look | mark |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 so | fixed |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 look | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 look | aux |
| 24 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 conquer | conj |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 assembly | case |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 assembly | det |
| 27 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 assembly | amod |
| 28 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 look | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 happy | punct |
| 30 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 happy | advmod |
| 31 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 assembly | conj |
| 32 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 be | aux |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 be | nsubj |
| 34 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 possible | conj |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 possible | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | conquer | to-infinitive | Time and Space | the Bodhisattvas obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | could | I | upon that marvellous assembly | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon assembly=Theme | ||||
| 4 | be | should | I | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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