In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 70
“A very great danger now threatens you, because of an error committed in one of your former states of existence.
Who acts: great danger · What happens: threaten, commit · To what, where: you, error
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 (great danger), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 threatens | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 danger | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 great | advmod |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 danger | amod |
| 5 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 threatens | nsubj |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 threatens | advmod |
| 7 | threatens | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 threatens | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 error | punct |
| 10 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 13 error | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 because | fixed |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 error | det |
| 13 | error | error | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 threatens | obl |
| 14 | committed | commit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 error | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 committed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 states | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 states | nmod:poss |
| 19 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 states | amod |
| 20 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 existence | case |
| 22 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 states | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 threatens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten in a quote | present | a great danger | you | now | because a error | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | commit in a quote | participle | a error not said here | in one of your former states of existence | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in one=Destination |
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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