In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 63
Our dream of heaven is the dream of obtaining them free of cost in pain; and the condition of those silkworms is the realization, in a small way, of our imagined Paradise.
Who acts: dream, condition, Our · What happens: be, obtain, imagine, dream, condition · To what, where: dream, things, realization, heaven, silkworms
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 (dream, condition, Our), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 dream | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dream | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 heaven | case |
| 4 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dream | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dream | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dream | det |
| 7 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 obtaining | mark |
| 9 | obtaining | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 dream | acl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 obtaining | obj |
| 11 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 obtaining | xcomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cost | case |
| 13 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 free | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 pain | case |
| 15 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cost | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 realization | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 realization | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 condition | det |
| 19 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 realization | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 silkworms | case |
| 21 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 silkworms | det |
| 22 | silkworms | silkworm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 condition | nmod |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 realization | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 realization | det |
| 25 | realization | realization | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dream | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 way | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 way | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 way | det |
| 29 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 way | amod |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 realization | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Paradise | punct |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Paradise | case |
| 33 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 Paradise | nmod:poss |
| 34 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 Paradise | amod |
| 35 | Paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 realization | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dream | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Our dream of heaven | the dream | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | obtain | gerund | the dream not said here | things = thing | free property | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | present | the condition of that silkworms | the realization and a small way and our imagined Paradise | a small way conj; our imagined Paradise conj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | imagine | participle | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 5 | dream | Our | heaven | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | |||||
| 6 | condition | that silkworms | nom condition «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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