In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 15
The ghastliness of the performance is chiefly—though not entirely—in the goblin mockery of the laughing tones as contrasted with the piteous agony of the wailing ones: an incongruity that makes you think of madness.
Who acts: ghastliness, incongruity, you · What happens: be, laugh, contrast, make, think, mock · To what, where: laughing tones, you
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 (ghastliness, incongruity, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ghastliness | det |
| 2 | ghastliness | ghastliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chiefly | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 performance | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 performance | det |
| 5 | performance | performance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ghastliness | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 chiefly | cop |
| 7 | chiefly | chiefly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 chiefly | punct |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 11 entirely | mark |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 entirely | advmod |
| 11 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 7 chiefly | advmod |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 mockery | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 mockery | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mockery | det |
| 15 | goblin | goblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mockery | compound |
| 16 | mockery | mockery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chiefly | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 tones | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tones | det |
| 19 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 tones | amod |
| 20 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 mockery | nmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 contrasted | mark |
| 22 | contrasted | contrast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 tones | acl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 agony | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 agony | det |
| 25 | piteous | piteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 agony | amod |
| 26 | agony | agony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 contrasted | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 ones | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ones | det |
| 29 | wailing | wailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ones | compound |
| 30 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 agony | nmod |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 incongruity | punct |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 incongruity | det |
| 33 | incongruity | incongruity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mockery | conj |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 makes | nsubj |
| 35 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 incongruity | acl:relcl |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 makes | obj |
| 37 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 makes | xcomp |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 madness | case |
| 39 | madness | madness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 think | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 chiefly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the ghastliness of the performance | the goblin mockery of the laughing tones and a incongruity parataxis; chiefly, entirely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | contrast | participle | the laughing tones not said here | with the piteous agony of the wailing ones | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with agony=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | present | a incongruity | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | infinitive | you not said here | of madness | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | mock | the laughing tones | nom mockery «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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