In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 44
For thousands of years their race has been so well-cared for, that it can no longer take any care of itself.
Who acts: trays, race · What happens: care, take, race · To what, where: race
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 (trays, race), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 thousands | case |
| 2 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cared | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 thousands | nmod |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 race | nmod:poss |
| 6 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cared | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 cared | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 cared | aux:pass |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 cared | advmod |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 cared | advmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 well | punct |
| 12 | cared | care | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 cared | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 take | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 take | expl |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | aux |
| 18 | no | no | ADV | _ | 19 longer | advmod |
| 19 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 take | advmod |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 cared | conj |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 care | det |
| 22 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 itself | case |
| 24 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 22 care | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | care | present · perfect · passive | trays's race | for thousands of years; well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | can | race | any care of race obj; long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 3 | race | trays = tray | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | care | race | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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