In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 94
_ According to our doctrine, the saying would be as true of life in heaven as of life upon earth….
Who acts: saying, our · What happens: accord, be, indoctrinate
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 (saying, our), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 doctrine | punct |
| 2 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 doctrine | case |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 2 According | fixed |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 doctrine | nmod:poss |
| 5 | doctrine | doctrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 true | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 saying | det |
| 8 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 true | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 true | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 true | cop |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 true | case |
| 12 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 doctrine | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 life | case |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 true | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 heaven | case |
| 16 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 life | nmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 life | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 life | case |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 true | obl |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 earth | case |
| 21 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 true | obl |
| 22 | …. | .. | PUNCT | _ | 5 doctrine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | would | the saying | of life in heaven; as life; upon earth; true property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | indoctrinate | our | nom doctrine «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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