In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 69
And we should foolishly deem ourselves fortunate to be equally well cared-for in proportion to our more complex wants.
Who acts: we, proportion · What happens: deem, care, want · To what, where: ourselves
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 (we, proportion), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 deem | cc |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 deem | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 deem | aux |
| 4 | foolishly | foolishly | ADV | _ | 5 deem | advmod |
| 5 | deem | deem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 deem | obj |
| 7 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 deem | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 cared | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cared | aux:pass |
| 10 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 12 cared | advmod |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 cared | advmod |
| 12 | cared | care | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fortunate | advcl |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 proportion | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 proportion | case |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 proportion | case |
| 16 | proportion | proportion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cared | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 complex | case |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 complex | nmod:poss |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 complex | amod |
| 20 | complex | complex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wants | obl |
| 21 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 proportion | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 deem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deem | should | we | ourselves | foolishly, fortunate property | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent ourselves=Attribute | |||
| 2 | care | to-infinitive · passive | we not said here | for proportion; equally, well property | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: for proportion=Theme | ||||
| 3 | want | present | proportion not said here | to our more complex | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent to complex=Attribute |
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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