In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 109
There we are now just barely able to live, by doing a little private work….
Who acts: we · What happens: be, live, do · To what, where: little private work
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 able | expl |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 able | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 able | cop |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 able | advmod |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 able | advmod |
| 6 | barely | barely | ADV | _ | 7 able | advmod |
| 7 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 live | mark |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 able | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 doing | punct |
| 11 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 12 doing | mark |
| 12 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 live | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 work | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 work | amod |
| 15 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 work | amod |
| 16 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 doing | obj |
| 17 | …. | .. | PUNCT | _ | 7 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | we | there | now | able, barely property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | gerund | we not said here | a little private work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
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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