In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 84
It will be better for you not to let your mind be troubled by this event.”
Who acts: destiny, you, event, your · What happens: be, not let, trouble, mind · To what, where: mind
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 (destiny, you, event, your), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 better | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 better | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 better | cop |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 let | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 let | nsubj |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 let | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 let | mark |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 better | advcl |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mind | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 let | obj |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 troubled | aux:pass |
| 13 | troubled | trouble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 let | xcomp |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 event | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 event | det |
| 16 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 troubled | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | destiny | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not let | to-infinitive | you | your mind | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | trouble | infinitive · passive | this event | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | mind | your | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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