In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 109
But his mind was still too much disturbed by the strange events of the day.
Who acts: strange events, _ · What happens: disturb, mind · To what, where: mind
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strange events, _), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 disturbed | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mind | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 disturbed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 disturbed | aux:pass |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 disturbed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 events | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 events | det |
| 11 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 events | amod |
| 12 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 disturbed | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 events | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 disturbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disturb | past · passive | the strange events of the day | _'s mind | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | mind | _ | nom mind «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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