In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 28
Even though in his blood there existed the force of a life of one hundred years, that force must quickly perish….
Who acts: blood, force · What happens: exist, perish · To what, where: force
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 (blood, force), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 7 existed | advmod |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 7 existed | mark |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 blood | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 blood | nmod:poss |
| 5 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 existed | nsubj |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 blood | advmod |
| 7 | existed | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 force | det |
| 9 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 existed | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 life | det |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 force | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 years | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 hundred | compound |
| 15 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 years | nummod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 life | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 perish | punct |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 force | det |
| 19 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 perish | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 perish | aux |
| 21 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 22 perish | advmod |
| 22 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 existed | conj |
| 23 | …. | .. | PUNCT | _ | 7 existed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | past | Yusai's blood | the force of a life of hundred years | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | perish | must | that force | quickly property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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