In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 12
It is incomparably weirder than the howl of any European dog; and I fancy that it is incomparably older.
Who acts: howl, I, European dog · What happens: be, fancy, howl
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 (howl, I, European dog), 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 | 4 weirder | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 weirder | cop |
| 3 | incomparably | incomparably | ADV | _ | 4 weirder | advmod |
| 4 | weirder | weird | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 howl | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 howl | det |
| 7 | howl | howl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 weirder | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 dog | case |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 dog | det |
| 10 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dog | amod |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 howl | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 fancy | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fancy | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 fancy | nsubj |
| 15 | fancy | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 weirder | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 older | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 older | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 older | cop |
| 19 | incomparably | incomparably | ADV | _ | 20 older | advmod |
| 20 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 fancy | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 weirder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | howl | than the howl of any European dog; incomparably, weird property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fancy | present | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | howl | incomparably, old property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | howl | any European dog | nom howl «communication intransitive»: of=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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