In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 17
Hearing of this strange death I remembered the old Japanese saying,—_Uranaiya minouyé shiradzu:_ “The fortune-teller knows not his own fate.”
Who acts: Hearing, fortune teller, strange death, acquaintance · What happens: remember, not know, hear, fate · To what, where: old Japanese saying, own fate · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Hearing, fortune teller, strange death, acquaintance), 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 | Hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remembered | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 death | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 death | det |
| 4 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 death | amod |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hearing | nmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 remembered | nsubj |
| 7 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 saying | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 saying | amod |
| 10 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 saying | amod |
| 11 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remembered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shiradzu | punct |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 shiradzu | punct |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 shiradzu | punct |
| 15 | Uranaiya | Uranaiya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 shiradzu | compound |
| 16 | minouyé | minouyé | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shiradzu | compound |
| 17 | shiradzu | shiradzu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saying | appos |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 shiradzu | punct |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 remembered | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 knows | punct |
| 21 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 teller | det |
| 22 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 teller | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 fortune | punct |
| 24 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 knows | nsubj |
| 25 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 remembered | parataxis |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 knows | advmod |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 fate | nmod:poss |
| 28 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 fate | amod |
| 29 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 knows | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 knows | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | Hearing of this strange death | the old Japanese saying | I nsubj | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent saying=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 2 | not know in a quote | present | the fortune teller | acquaintance's own fate | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hear | this strange death | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | fate in a quote | acquaintance | nom fate «event 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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