In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 75
The longing for perpetual bliss in perpetual peace might well seem a malevolent inspiration from the Lords of Death and Darkness.
Who acts: longing · What happens: seem · To what, where: malevolent inspiration
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 (longing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 longing | det |
| 2 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seem | nsubj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 bliss | case |
| 4 | perpetual | perpetual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bliss | amod |
| 5 | bliss | bliss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 longing | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 peace | case |
| 7 | perpetual | perpetual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 peace | compound |
| 8 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bliss | nmod |
| 9 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 seem | aux |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 seem | advmod |
| 11 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 inspiration | det |
| 13 | malevolent | malevolent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 inspiration | amod |
| 14 | inspiration | inspiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seem | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Lords | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Lords | det |
| 17 | Lords | Lord | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 inspiration | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Death | case |
| 19 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Lords | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Darkness | cc |
| 21 | Darkness | Darkness | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Death | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | might | the longing for perpetual bliss in perpetual peace | a malevolent inspiration | from the Lords of Death and Darkness; well property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme inspiration=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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