In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 113
It were a hopeless effort to enumerate a tithe of the articles decorated with poetical texts.
Who acts: example · What happens: be, enumerate, decorate · To what, where: hopeless effort, tithe, articles
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (example), 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 | 5 effort | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 effort | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 effort | det |
| 4 | hopeless | hopeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 effort | amod |
| 5 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 enumerate | mark |
| 7 | enumerate | enumerate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 effort | acl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tithe | det |
| 9 | tithe | tithe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 enumerate | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 articles | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 articles | det |
| 12 | articles | article | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tithe | nmod |
| 13 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 articles | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 texts | case |
| 15 | poetical | poetical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 texts | amod |
| 16 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 decorated | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 effort | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | example | a hopeless effort | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enumerate | to-infinitive | a tithe of the articles | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | decorate | participle | the articles not said here | with poetical texts | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with text=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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