In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 29
It is our greatest delight to represent such holy matters….
Who acts: Assembly, such holy · What happens: be, represent, matter · To what, where: greatest delight
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 (Assembly, such holy), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 delight | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 delight | cop |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 delight | nmod:poss |
| 4 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 delight | amod |
| 5 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 represent | mark |
| 7 | represent | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 delight | acl |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 holy | amod |
| 9 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 matters | nsubj |
| 10 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 represent | ccomp |
| 11 | …. | .. | PUNCT | _ | 5 delight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Assembly | our greatest delight | our nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | represent | to-infinitive | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | matter | present | such holy | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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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