In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 127
One day of life in this hell is equal in duration to thousands (some say millions) of human years.
Who acts: One day, some · What happens: be, say · To what, where: duration, millions · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (One day, some), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 equal | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 life | case |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hell | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 hell | det |
| 7 | hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 equal | cop |
| 9 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 duration | case |
| 11 | duration | duration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 equal | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 thousands | case |
| 13 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 equal | obl |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 say | punct |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 say | nsubj |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 thousands | acl:relcl |
| 17 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 say | obj |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 millions | punct |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 years | case |
| 20 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 years | amod |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 millions | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 equal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | One day of life in this hell | duration | to thousands; equal property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | some | millions of human years | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent million=Topic |
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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