In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 78
Whatever organ ceases to know pain,—whatever faculty ceases to be used under the stimulus of pain,—must also cease to exist.
Who acts: organ · What happens: cease, know, use, exist · To what, where: Whatever, pain, stimulus
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 (organ), 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 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 ceases | obj |
| 2 | organ | organ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ceases | nsubj |
| 3 | ceases | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 know | mark |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ceases | xcomp |
| 6 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ceases | punct |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 ceases | punct |
| 9 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 ceases | det:predet |
| 10 | faculty | faculty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ceases | compound |
| 11 | ceases | cease | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pain | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 used | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 used | aux:pass |
| 14 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ceases | acl |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 stimulus | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stimulus | det |
| 17 | stimulus | stimulus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 used | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 pain | case |
| 19 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stimulus | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cease | punct |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 cease | punct |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 cease | aux |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 cease | advmod |
| 24 | cease | cease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ceases | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 exist | mark |
| 26 | exist | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 cease | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ceases | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | present | organ | Whatever | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | organ not said here | pain and whatever faculty ceases | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer pain=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | use | to-infinitive · passive | organ not said here | the stimulus of pain | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» | ||||
| 4 | cease | must | organ not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | exist | to-infinitive | organ not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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