In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 115
Perhaps you might find your way to some Japanese hamlet in which there are neither trees nor flowers, but never to any hamlet in which there is no visible poetry.
Who acts: you, visible poetry · What happens: find, be · To what, where: way, hamlet
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 (you, visible poetry), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 find | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 hamlet | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 hamlet | det |
| 9 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hamlet | amod |
| 10 | hamlet | hamlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 are | obl |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 are | expl |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hamlet | acl:relcl |
| 15 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 trees | cc:preconj |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hamlet | nmod |
| 17 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 flowers | cc |
| 18 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 trees | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hamlet | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 hamlet | cc |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 hamlet | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 hamlet | case |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 hamlet | det |
| 24 | hamlet | hamlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | parataxis |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 is | obl |
| 27 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 is | expl |
| 28 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 hamlet | parataxis |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 poetry | det |
| 30 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 poetry | amod |
| 31 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 is | nsubj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | might | you | your way | to some Japanese hamlet trees nor flowers; any hamlet parataxis; perhaps property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | |||
| 2 | be | present | no visible poetry | any hamlet; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
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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