In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 50
Then it occurred to me that this fantasy was in substance scarcely more than the delicate modification of a most ancient doctrine, common to nearly all the higher forms of religion.
Who acts: human, fantasy · What happens: occur, be, modify, form · To what, where: me, substance, ancient doctrine, religion
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 (human, fantasy), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 occurred | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 occurred | nsubj |
| 3 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 occurred | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 substance | mark |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 fantasy | det |
| 8 | fantasy | fantasy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 substance | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 substance | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 substance | case |
| 11 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 occurred | advcl |
| 12 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 occurred | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 modification | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 modification | det |
| 16 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 modification | amod |
| 17 | modification | modification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 more | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 doctrine | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 doctrine | det |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 ancient | advmod |
| 21 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 doctrine | amod |
| 22 | doctrine | doctrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 modification | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 common | punct |
| 24 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 occurred | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 forms | case |
| 26 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 27 all | advmod |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 forms | det:predet |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 forms | det |
| 29 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 forms | amod |
| 30 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 common | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 religion | case |
| 32 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 forms | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | past | human | me | then | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | this fantasy | substance | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | modify | a ancient doctrine | nom modification «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | form | religion | nom form «communication 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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