In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 56
Even so the butterfly-man exists,—although, as a matter of course, we cannot see him.
Who acts: butterfly man, we · What happens: exist, not see · To what, where: man
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 (butterfly man, we), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 7 exists | advmod |
| 2 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 7 exists | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 4 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 butterfly | punct |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 exists | nsubj |
| 7 | exists | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 exists | punct |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 matter | punct |
| 10 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 14 matter | mark |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 although | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 matter | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 matter | det |
| 14 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 exists | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 21 see | advmod |
| 16 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 of | fixed |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 of | punct |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 see | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 see | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 see | advmod |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 matter | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 see | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 exists | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | present | the butterfly man | as a matter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not see | can | we | man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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