In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 53
As for myself, one of my wings has been broken,—so that now I cannot fly.”
Who acts: I · What happens: break, not fly · To what, where: one
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), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 myself | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 broken | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 broken | punct |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wings | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wings | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 broken | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 broken | aux:pass |
| 11 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 broken | punct |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 fly | punct |
| 14 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 fly | mark |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 so | fixed |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 so | fixed |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 fly | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 fly | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 fly | advmod |
| 20 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 broken | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 broken | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present · perfect · passive | one of my wings | as myself | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not fly | can | I | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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