In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 28
I perfectly well remember the assembly on the Vulture Peak; and I can cause everything that happened there to reappear before you, exactly as it occurred.
Who acts: I, Assembly · What happens: remember, cause, happen, reappear, occur · To what, where: assembly, Vulture Peak, everything
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 (I, Assembly), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 remember | nsubj |
| 2 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 4 remember | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 remember | advmod |
| 4 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 assembly | det |
| 6 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remember | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Peak | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Peak | det |
| 9 | Vulture | Vulture | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Peak | compound |
| 10 | Peak | Peak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 assembly | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 cause | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cause | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 cause | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 cause | aux |
| 15 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 remember | parataxis |
| 16 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 cause | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 happened | nsubj |
| 18 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 everything | acl:relcl |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 happened | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 reappear | mark |
| 21 | reappear | reappear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 happened | xcomp |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 reappear | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 occurred | punct |
| 25 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 28 occurred | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 occurred | mark |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 occurred | nsubj |
| 28 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cause | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | infinitive | I | the assembly | the Vulture Peak | perfectly, well property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent assembly=Theme | ||
| 2 | cause | can | I | everything | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition everything=Patient | ||||
| 3 | happen | past | there | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | reappear | to-infinitive | before you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before you=Location | |||||
| 5 | occur | past | Assembly | exactly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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