In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 25
And if the woman be a ghost, the signs of death will appear upon his face.
Who acts: woman, signs · What happens: be, appear, sign · To what, where: ghost, face, death
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 (woman, signs), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 appear | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 ghost | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ghost | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ghost | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ghost | det |
| 7 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appear | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ghost | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 signs | det |
| 10 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 appear | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 death | case |
| 12 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 signs | nmod |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 appear | aux |
| 14 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 face | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 face | nmod:poss |
| 17 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appear | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | the woman | a ghost | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | appear | future | the signs of death | master's face | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon face=Location | ||||
| 3 | sign | death | nom sign «communication 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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