In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 55
But all efforts made to divert his mind from the thought of her proved unavailing.
Who acts: efforts, book · What happens: make, divert, prove, mind, think · To what, where: efforts, mind, thought, proved unavailing
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (efforts, book), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 made | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 efforts | det |
| 3 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 divert | mark |
| 6 | divert | divert | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mind | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 divert | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 thought | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 thought | det |
| 11 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 divert | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 unavailing | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 unavailing | nmod:poss |
| 14 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 unavailing | amod |
| 15 | unavailing | unavailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle · passive | all efforts | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | divert | to-infinitive | all efforts not said here | book's mind | the thought of reason's proved unavailing | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mind=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | prove | participle | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | mind | book | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | think | reason's proved unavailing | nom thought «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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