In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 13
My old acquaintance left this world as lonesomely as he had lived in it.
Who acts: old acquaintance, acquaintance, My · What happens: leave, live, acquaint · To what, where: world
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old acquaintance, acquaintance, My), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 acquaintance | nmod:poss |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 acquaintance | amod |
| 3 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 world | det |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 lonesomely | advmod |
| 8 | lonesomely | lonesomely | ADV | _ | 4 left | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 lived | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lived | aux |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 left | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lived | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | My old acquaintance | this world | lonesomely property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | past · perfect | acquaintance | world | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location | ||||
| 3 | acquaint | My | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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