In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 68
He is their providence,—a god of whose existence they can be aware in only the vaguest possible way, but just such a god as they require.
Who acts: majority, worms, god · What happens: be, require, exist · To what, where: providence, existence, vaguest possible way
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 (majority, worms, god), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 providence | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 providence | cop |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 providence | nmod:poss |
| 4 | providence | providence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 providence | punct |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 god | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 god | det |
| 8 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 providence | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 existence | case |
| 10 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 existence | nmod:poss |
| 11 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 god | nmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 aware | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 aware | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 aware | cop |
| 15 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 existence | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 way | case |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 way | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 way | det |
| 19 | vaguest | vague | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 way | amod |
| 20 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 way | amod |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 aware | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 god | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 god | cc |
| 24 | just | just | ADV | _ | 27 god | advmod |
| 25 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 god | det:predet |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 god | det |
| 27 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 god | conj |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 require | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 require | nsubj |
| 30 | require | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 god | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 providence | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | majority | worms's providence | worms = worm nmod:poss; a god of a god of a god's existence but such god's existence but such god appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | can | worms = worm | a god of a god of existence but such god's existence but such god's existence not said here | the vaguest possible way | aware property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | require | present | worms = worm | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | exist | a god of a god of existence but such god's existence but such god | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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