In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 13
It may represent the original primitive cry of her species,—totally unmodified by centuries of domestication.
Who acts: howl, species · What happens: represent, unmodify, cry · To what, where: original primitive cry, species
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, species), 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 | 3 represent | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 represent | aux |
| 3 | represent | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cry | det |
| 5 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cry | amod |
| 6 | primitive | primitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cry | amod |
| 7 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 represent | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 species | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 species | nmod:poss |
| 10 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cry | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 unmodified | punct |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 unmodified | punct |
| 13 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 14 unmodified | advmod |
| 14 | unmodified | unmodify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 species | acl:relcl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 centuries | case |
| 16 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 unmodified | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 domestication | case |
| 18 | domestication | domestication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 centuries | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 represent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | may | howl | the original primitive cry of uneasiness's species | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cry=Theme | ||||
| 2 | unmodify | participle | uneasiness's species not said here | century | totally property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | cry | uneasiness's species | nom cry «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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