In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 57
But what would become of this human imago in a state of perfect bliss?
What happens: become
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 become | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 become | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 become | aux |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 imago | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 imago | det |
| 7 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 imago | amod |
| 8 | imago | imago | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 become | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 state | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 state | det |
| 11 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 imago | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bliss | case |
| 13 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bliss | amod |
| 14 | bliss | bliss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 state | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | would | of this human imago in a state of perfect bliss; what nsubj | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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