In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 72
He could hear only the soft rushing of a neighboring stream, and the shrilling of night-insects.
Who acts: Shinzaburō · What happens: hear, rush, neighbor, shrill · To what, where: soft shrilling, night insects · 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 (Shinzaburō), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | aux |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 shrilling | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shrilling | det |
| 6 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 shrilling | amod |
| 7 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 shrilling | csubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 stream | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stream | det |
| 10 | neighboring | neighbor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 stream | amod |
| 11 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rushing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shrilling | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shrilling | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shrilling | det |
| 15 | shrilling | shrilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hear | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 insects | case |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 insects | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 night | punct |
| 19 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shrilling | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | could | Shinzaburō | the soft shrilling of night insects | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer shrilling=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | rush | gerund | of a neighboring stream | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of stream=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | neighbor | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | shrill | night insects | nom shrilling «event 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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