In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 82
If you do this, the power of the holy texts will prevent the dead from entering.
Who acts: you, power · What happens: do, prevent, enter · To what, where: this, dead
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 (you, power), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 do | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 prevent | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 do | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 power | det |
| 7 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prevent | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 texts | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 texts | det |
| 10 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 texts | amod |
| 11 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 power | nmod |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 prevent | aux |
| 13 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dead | det |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 prevent | obj |
| 16 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 17 entering | mark |
| 17 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 prevent | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 prevent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | you | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | prevent | future | the power of the holy texts | the dead | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer dead=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enter | gerund | the power of the holy texts not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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