In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 53
Also they tell us not to trouble ourselves about the fact that we see no Psyché-imago detach itself from the broken cocoon: this lack of visual evidence signifies nothing, because we have only the purblind vision of grubs.
Who acts: faiths, we, Psyché imago, lack · What happens: tell, see, detach, break, signify, have · To what, where: trouble, us, fact, imago, nothing, purblind vision · 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 (faiths, we, Psyché imago, lack), 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 | Also | also | ADV | _ | 3 tell | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 trouble | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 trouble | mark |
| 7 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obj |
| 8 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 trouble | nmod |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 fact | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fact | det |
| 11 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trouble | nmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fact | acl |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 imago | det |
| 16 | Psyché | Psyché | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 imago | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Psyché | punct |
| 18 | imago | imago | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 detach | nsubj |
| 19 | detach | detach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | ccomp |
| 20 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 detach | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 cocoon | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cocoon | det |
| 23 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 cocoon | amod |
| 24 | cocoon | cocoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 detach | obl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 signifies | punct |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 lack | det |
| 27 | lack | lack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 signifies | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 evidence | case |
| 29 | visual | visual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 evidence | amod |
| 30 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lack | nmod |
| 31 | signifies | signify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 cocoon | parataxis |
| 32 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 31 signifies | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 have | punct |
| 34 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 36 have | mark |
| 35 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 have | nsubj |
| 36 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 signifies | conj |
| 37 | only | only | ADV | _ | 40 vision | advmod |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 vision | det |
| 39 | purblind | purblind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 vision | amod |
| 40 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 have | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 grubs | case |
| 42 | grubs | grub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 vision | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | faiths = faith | trouble ourselves | us | about the fact | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient trouble=Topic | ||
| 2 | see | present | we | the fact not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | detach | present | no Psyché imago | imago | from the broken cocoon | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient from cocoon=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | signify | present | this lack of visual evidence | nothing | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | present | we | the purblind vision of grubs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vision=Patient | ||||
| 7 | lack | visual evidence | nom lack «state 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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