In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 114
Still burn his footprints in the East; and still the great West, marvelling, follows their gleam to seek the Supreme Enlightenment.
Who acts: you, great West · What happens: burn, follow, seek · To what, where: footprints, East, gleam, Supreme Enlightenment
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, great West), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 2 burn | advmod |
| 2 | burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 footprints | nmod:poss |
| 4 | footprints | footprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 burn | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 East | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 East | det |
| 7 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 burn | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 follows | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 follows | cc |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 follows | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 West | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 West | amod |
| 13 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 follows | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 marvelling | punct |
| 15 | marvelling | marvelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 West | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 West | punct |
| 17 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 burn | advcl |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 gleam | nmod:poss |
| 19 | gleam | gleam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 follows | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 seek | mark |
| 21 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 follows | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Enlightenment | det |
| 23 | Supreme | supreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Enlightenment | amod |
| 24 | Enlightenment | enlightenment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seek | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 burn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | imperative | you not said here | truth's footprints | the East | still | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent footprint=Theme | ||
| 2 | follow | present | the great West | Footprints's gleam | still | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gleam=Theme | |||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | the great West not said here | the Supreme Enlightenment | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enlightenment=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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