In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 124
But the terror of death and the terror of the unknown restrained; and there went on within him such a struggle between his love and his fear that he became as one suffering in the body the pains of the Shō-netsu hell.
Who acts: house · What happens: restrain, go on, become, love, fear, pain · To what, where: terror, struggle, pains, body, Shō netsu hell
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 (house), 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 | _ | 12 restrained | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 terror | det |
| 3 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 restrained | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 death | case |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 terror | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 terror | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 terror | det |
| 8 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 terror | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 unknown | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 unknown | det |
| 11 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 terror | nmod |
| 12 | restrained | restrain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 restrained | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 went | advmod |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 restrained | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | within | within | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | obl |
| 20 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 struggle | det:predet |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 struggle | det |
| 22 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 23 | between | between | ADP | _ | 25 love | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 love | nmod:poss |
| 25 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 struggle | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fear | cc |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 fear | nmod:poss |
| 28 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 love | conj |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 became | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 became | nsubj |
| 31 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 fear | acl |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 suffering | case |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 suffering | nummod |
| 34 | suffering | suffering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 became | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 body | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 body | det |
| 37 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 became | obl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 pains | det |
| 39 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 became | xcomp |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 hell | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 hell | det |
| 42 | Shō | Shō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 hell | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 Shō | punct |
| 44 | netsu | netsu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 hell | compound |
| 45 | hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 pains | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 restrained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | restrain | participle · passive | the terror of death and the terror of the unknown | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go on | past | such struggle between house's love and house's fear | there | within house | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | become | past | house | the pains of the Shō netsu hell | the body | as one suffering | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient fear=Result | ||
| 4 | love | house | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | fear | house | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | pain | the Shō netsu hell | nom pain «state 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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