In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 2
Howling is one of the few pathetic pleasures of her existence.
Who acts: Howling, her · What happens: be, please, exist · To what, where: one, existence
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 (Howling, her), 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 | Howling | howling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 one | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | cop |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 pleasures | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pleasures | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pleasures | amod |
| 7 | pathetic | pathetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pleasures | amod |
| 8 | pleasures | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 existence | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 existence | nmod:poss |
| 11 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pleasures | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Howling | one | of the few pathetic pleasures of her existence | tree rules | |||
| 2 | please | her existence | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | exist | her = she | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=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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