In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 88
The suppression of pain—mental or physical,—in any conceivable state of sentient existence, would necessarily involve the suppression also of pleasure;—and certainly all progress, whether moral or material, depends upon the power to meet and to master pain.
Who acts: suppression · What happens: involve, depend, meet, master, suppress · To what, where: suppression, pain
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 (suppression), 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 suppression | det |
| 2 | suppression | suppression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 involve | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 pain | case |
| 4 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 suppression | nmod |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 mental | punct |
| 6 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 suppression | appos |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 physical | cc |
| 8 | physical | physical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mental | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 suppression | punct |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 state | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 state | case |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 state | det |
| 13 | conceivable | conceivable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 state | amod |
| 14 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 suppression | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 existence | case |
| 16 | sentient | sentient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 existence | amod |
| 17 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 state | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 suppression | punct |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 involve | aux |
| 20 | necessarily | necessarily | ADV | _ | 21 involve | advmod |
| 21 | involve | involve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 suppression | det |
| 23 | suppression | suppression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 involve | obj |
| 24 | also | also | ADV | _ | 26 pleasure | advmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 pleasure | case |
| 26 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 involve | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 involve | punct |
| 28 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 progress | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 progress | cc |
| 30 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 32 progress | advmod |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 progress | det |
| 32 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 involve | parataxis |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 moral | punct |
| 34 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 35 moral | mark |
| 35 | moral | moral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 progress | conj |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 material | cc |
| 37 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 moral | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 depends | punct |
| 39 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 progress | parataxis |
| 40 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 42 power | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 power | det |
| 42 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 depends | obl |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 meet | mark |
| 44 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 depends | advcl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 master | cc |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 master | mark |
| 47 | master | master | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 meet | conj |
| 48 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 master | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 involve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | involve | would | the suppression of pain and any conceivable state of sentient existence | the suppression | of pleasure; all progress and moral or material parataxis; necessarily property | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suppression=Theme | |||
| 2 | depend | present | upon the power | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | master | to-infinitive | pain | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | suppress | pain | nom suppression «process transitive»: of=patient |
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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