In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 71
The karma that binds you to the dead is very strong; but if I tried to explain its character, you would not be able to understand.
Who acts: karma, I, you · What happens: bind, be, try, explain, not be, understand · To what, where: you, character
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 (karma, I, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 karma | det |
| 2 | karma | karma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 strong | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 binds | nsubj |
| 4 | binds | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 karma | acl:relcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 binds | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 dead | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dead | det |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 binds | obl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 strong | cop |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 strong | advmod |
| 11 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 tried | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 tried | cc |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 tried | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 tried | nsubj |
| 16 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 strong | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 explain | mark |
| 18 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 tried | xcomp |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 character | nmod:poss |
| 20 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 explain | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 able | punct |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 able | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 able | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 able | advmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 able | cop |
| 26 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 strong | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 understand | mark |
| 28 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 able | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind | present | the karma | you | to the dead | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent you=Patient to dead=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | is | present | the karma | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | try a condition, not said to happen | past | I | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | explain speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | karma's character | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Topic | ||||
| 5 | not is | would | you | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | understand | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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