In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 26
For the spirit of the living is _yōki_, and pure;—the spirit of the dead is _inki_, and unclean: the one is Positive, the other Negative.
Who acts: spirit, one · What happens: be · To what, where: yōki, inki
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 (spirit, one), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 spirit | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spirit | det |
| 3 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 yōki | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 living | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 living | det |
| 6 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spirit | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 yōki | cop |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 yōki | punct |
| 9 | yōki | yōki | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 yōki | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pure | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pure | cc |
| 13 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 yōki | parataxis |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 yōki | punct |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 spirit | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 spirit | det |
| 17 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 inki | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 dead | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dead | det |
| 20 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 spirit | nmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 inki | cop |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 inki | punct |
| 23 | inki | inki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 yōki | conj |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 inki | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 unclean | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 unclean | cc |
| 27 | unclean | unclean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 yōki | conj |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 Positive | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 one | det |
| 30 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Positive | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 Positive | cop |
| 32 | Positive | positive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 yōki | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Negative | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Negative | det |
| 35 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Negative | amod |
| 36 | Negative | negative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Positive | parataxis |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 yōki | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | yōki and inki | for the spirit of the living | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the spirit of the dead | inki | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 4 | is | present | the one | positive property | tree rules |
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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