In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 64
If you once get struck by a stone-wave,—as I did several times,—you will not soon forget the experience.
Who acts: stone wave, I, you · What happens: strike, do, not forget · To what, where: you, experience
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 (stone wave, I, you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 struck | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 struck | advmod |
| 4 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 struck | aux:pass |
| 5 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 forget | advcl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 wave | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wave | det |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wave | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 stone | punct |
| 10 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 struck | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 struck | punct |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 did | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 did | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 did | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 struck | conj |
| 16 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 times | amod |
| 17 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 did | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 struck | punct |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 forget | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 forget | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 forget | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 forget | advmod |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 forget | advmod |
| 24 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 experience | det |
| 26 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 forget | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 forget | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | a stone wave | you | once property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument | |||
| 2 | do | past | I | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not forget | future | you | the experience | soon property | tree rules |
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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