In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 15
Where the eyes of the lover deluded saw youth and grace and beauty, there appeared to the eyes of the watcher horror only, and the emptiness of death.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: delude, see, appear · To what, where: youth, emptiness
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 (eyes), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eyes | det |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 lover | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lover | det |
| 6 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eyes | nmod |
| 7 | deluded | delude | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 appeared | advcl |
| 9 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 grace | cc |
| 11 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 youth | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 beauty | cc |
| 13 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 youth | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 appeared | expl |
| 16 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 eyes | det |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 appeared | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 horror | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 horror | det |
| 22 | watcher | watcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 horror | compound |
| 23 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eyes | nmod |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 horror | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 emptiness | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 emptiness | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 emptiness | det |
| 28 | emptiness | emptiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 appeared | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 death | case |
| 30 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 emptiness | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | delude | past | the eyes of the lover not said here | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | past | the eyes of the lover | youth and grace and beauty | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | appear | past | the emptiness of death | there | to the eyes of the watcher horror | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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