In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 82

The indescribable antique queerness of everything gives you that weird sensation of remoteness,—of the far away in time and place,—which makes one doubt the reality of the visible.

Who acts: indescribable antique queerness · What happens: give, make, sense · To what, where: weird sensation, you, one doubt, remoteness

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 (indescribable antique queerness), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 queerness	det
2	indescribable	indescribable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 queerness	amod
3	antique	antique	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 queerness	amod
4	queerness	queerness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gives	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 everything	case
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 queerness	nmod
7	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 gives	iobj
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 sensation	det
10	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sensation	amod
11	sensation	sensation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gives	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 remoteness	case
13	remoteness	remoteness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sensation	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gives	punct
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	19 away	punct
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 away	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 away	det
18	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 away	advmod
19	away	away	ADV	_	7 gives	parataxis
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 time	case
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 away	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 place	cc
23	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 time	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 makes	punct
25	—	-	PUNCT	_	27 makes	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 makes	nsubj
27	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gives	conj
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 doubt	nummod
29	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 makes	obj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 reality	det
31	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 makes	xcomp
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 visible	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 visible	det
34	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 reality	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	present	the indescribable antique queerness of everything	that weird sensation of remoteness	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient sensation=Theme
2	make	present		one doubt		which nsubj; the reality of the visible xcomp	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset doubt=Product
3	sense			remoteness			nom sensation «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 82

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 82