In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 109
They were only too glad to follow a dead sweetheart into the grave; and nevertheless, being Christians, they believed that they had only one human life to enjoy in this world.
Who acts: Kai · What happens: be, follow, believe, have, enjoy · To what, where: dead sweetheart, grave, Christians, one human life, world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kai), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 glad | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 glad | advmod |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 glad | advmod |
| 5 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 follow | mark |
| 7 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 glad | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sweetheart | det |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sweetheart | amod |
| 10 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 follow | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 grave | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 grave | det |
| 13 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 follow | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 nevertheless | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 nevertheless | cc |
| 16 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 5 glad | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Christians | punct |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 Christians | cop |
| 19 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 nevertheless | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 believed | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 believed | nsubj |
| 22 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 glad | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 had | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 believed | ccomp |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 one | advmod |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 life | nummod |
| 28 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 life | amod |
| 29 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 enjoy | mark |
| 31 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 life | acl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 world | case |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 world | det |
| 34 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 enjoy | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Kai | glad, nevertheless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | to-infinitive | Kai not said here | a dead sweetheart | the grave | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sweetheart=Theme into grave=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | is a | gerund | Kai not said here | Christians | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | believe | past | Kai | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | have | past | Kai | one human life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient | ||||
| 6 | enjoy | to-infinitive | Kai not said here | one human life not said here | this world | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: 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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