In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 116
You might wander,—as I have done,—into a settlement so poor that you could not obtain there, for love or money, even a cup of real tea; but I do not believe that you could discover a settlement in which there is nobody capable of making a poem.
Who acts: You, I, nobody · What happens: wander, do, not obtain, not believe, discover, be · To what, where: settlement, poem · Speech: someone speaks here
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, I, nobody), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 wander | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 wander | aux |
| 3 | wander | wander | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wander | punct |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 done | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 done | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 done | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 done | aux |
| 9 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 wander | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 settlement | punct |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 settlement | punct |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 settlement | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 settlement | det |
| 14 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 done | obl |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 poor | advmod |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 settlement | amod |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 obtain | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 obtain | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 obtain | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 obtain | advmod |
| 21 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 poor | advcl |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 obtain | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 love | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 love | case |
| 25 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 obtain | parataxis |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 money | cc |
| 27 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 love | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 cup | punct |
| 29 | even | even | ADV | _ | 31 cup | advmod |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 cup | det |
| 31 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 love | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 tea | case |
| 33 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 tea | amod |
| 34 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cup | nmod |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 believe | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 believe | cc |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 believe | nsubj |
| 38 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 believe | aux |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 believe | advmod |
| 40 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wander | conj |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 discover | mark |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 discover | nsubj |
| 43 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 discover | aux |
| 44 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 believe | ccomp |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 settlement | det |
| 46 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 discover | obj |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 which | case |
| 48 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 is | obl |
| 49 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 50 is | expl |
| 50 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 settlement | acl:relcl |
| 51 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 50 is | nsubj |
| 52 | capable | capable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 nobody | amod |
| 53 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 54 making | mark |
| 54 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 52 capable | advcl |
| 55 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 poem | det |
| 56 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 making | obj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wander | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | might | You | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | present · perfect | I | a settlement | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not obtain | could | you | there | love or money and a cup of real tea parataxis | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | not believe | present · do-support | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | discover | could | you | a settlement | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent settlement=Topic | ||||
| 6 | be | present | nobody | a settlement; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 7 | make | gerund | nobody not said here | a poem | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset poem=Product |
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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