In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 122
Such a disowning is called _shichi-shō madé no mandō_, a disinheritance for seven lives,—signifying that in six future lives after the present the erring son or daughter will continue to feel the parental displeasure.
Who acts: erring son · What happens: call, signify, live, continue, feel · To what, where: disowning, six future, present, parental displeasure · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (erring son), 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 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 disowning | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 disowning | det |
| 3 | disowning | disowning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | aux:pass |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 madé | punct |
| 7 | shichi | shichi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shō | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 shichi | punct |
| 9 | shō | shō | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 madé | compound |
| 10 | madé | madé | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 mandō | det |
| 12 | mandō | mandō | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 madé | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 disinheritance | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 disinheritance | det |
| 16 | disinheritance | disinheritance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | parataxis |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 lives | case |
| 18 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 lives | nummod |
| 19 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 disinheritance | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 signifying | punct |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 signifying | punct |
| 22 | signifying | signify | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 disinheritance | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 lives | mark |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 future | case |
| 25 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 future | nummod |
| 26 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lives | obl |
| 27 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 signifying | advcl |
| 28 | after | after | ADP | _ | 30 present | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 present | det |
| 30 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lives | obl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 son | det |
| 32 | erring | erring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 son | compound |
| 33 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 continue | nsubj |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 daughter | cc |
| 35 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 son | conj |
| 36 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 continue | aux |
| 37 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 present | acl:relcl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 feel | mark |
| 39 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 continue | xcomp |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 displeasure | det |
| 41 | parental | parental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 displeasure | amod |
| 42 | displeasure | displeasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 feel | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present · passive | such disowning | shō madé no mandō xcomp; a disinheritance for seven lives parataxis | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | signify | gerund | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 3 | live | present | six future | after the present | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in future=Location | ||||
| 4 | continue | future | the erring son or daughter | the present not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feel | to-infinitive | the erring son or daughter not said here | the parental displeasure | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent displeasure=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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