In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 72
Yet if the gods were to treat us as we want, we should presently afford fresh evidence,—in the way of what is called “the evidence from degeneration,”—that the great evolutional law is far above the gods.
Who acts: gods, we, great evolutional law · What happens: treat, want, afford, call, be · To what, where: us, fresh evidence, way · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (gods, we, great evolutional law), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 7 treat | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 treat | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gods | det |
| 4 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 treat | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 treat | aux |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 treat | mark |
| 7 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 treat | obj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 want | mark |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 want | nsubj |
| 11 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 afford | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 want | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 afford | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 afford | aux |
| 15 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 16 afford | advmod |
| 16 | afford | afford | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 treat | parataxis |
| 17 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 evidence | amod |
| 18 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 afford | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 way | punct |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 way | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 way | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 way | det |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 evidence | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 what | case |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 called | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 called | aux:pass |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 way | acl:relcl |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 evidence | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 evidence | det |
| 30 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 called | xcomp |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 degeneration | case |
| 32 | degeneration | degeneration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 evidence | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 way | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 treat | punct |
| 35 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 gods | punct |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 gods | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 law | det |
| 38 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 law | amod |
| 39 | evolutional | evolutional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 law | amod |
| 40 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 gods | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 gods | cop |
| 42 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 45 gods | advmod |
| 43 | above | above | ADP | _ | 45 gods | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 gods | det |
| 45 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 treat | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 treat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat | past | the gods | us | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | want | present | we | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | afford | should | we | fresh evidence | presently property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | call | present · passive | the way | the evidence from degeneration xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is | present | the great evolutional law | above the gods; far property | tree rules |
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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