In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 43
Even he who beholds the sign after my death shall be delivered from all the evil results of all his errors.”
Who acts: sign, my · What happens: behold, deliver, die, result, err · To what, where: sign, death, evil results, errors
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 (sign, my), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 4 beholds | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beholds | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 beholds | nsubj |
| 4 | beholds | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sign | det |
| 6 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beholds | obj |
| 7 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 delivered | mark |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 death | nmod:poss |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 delivered | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 delivered | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 delivered | aux:pass |
| 12 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 beholds | advcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 results | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 results | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 results | det |
| 16 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 results | amod |
| 17 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 delivered | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 errors | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 errors | det:predet |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 errors | nmod:poss |
| 21 | errors | error | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 results | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beholds | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 beholds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | present | sign | the sign | who nsubj | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | deliver | shall · passive | my death | all evil results of sign's errors | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from result=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | die | my | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | result | sign's errors | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | err | sign | nom error «act intransitive»: 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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