In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 9
“Oh, the, poor creature!” compassionately exclaimed the priest;—“why do you torment it so, children?”
Who acts: priest, you · What happens: exclaim, torment · To what, where: poor creature, creature · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (priest, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 creature | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 poor | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Oh | det |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 creature | amod |
| 7 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 exclaimed | obl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 creature | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 creature | punct |
| 10 | compassionately | compassionately | ADV | _ | 11 exclaimed | advmod |
| 11 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 priest | det |
| 13 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 exclaimed | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 torment | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 torment | punct |
| 17 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 torment | advmod |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 torment | aux |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 torment | nsubj |
| 20 | torment | torment | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 torment | obj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 torment | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 children | punct |
| 24 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 torment | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 torment | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 torment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | the priest | poor creature | compassionately property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | torment in a quote | present · do-support | you | creature | children obl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |
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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