In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 24
The whole thing is a song,—a song of emotions and thoughts not human, and therefore humanly unimaginable.
Who acts: whole thing, emotions · What happens: be, sing · To what, where: song
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 (whole thing, emotions), 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 | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 song | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 song | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 song | det |
| 6 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 song | punct |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 song | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 song | det |
| 10 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 song | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 emotions | case |
| 12 | emotions | emotion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 song | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thoughts | cc |
| 14 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 emotions | conj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 human | advmod |
| 16 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 emotions | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 unimaginable | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 unimaginable | cc |
| 19 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 21 unimaginable | advmod |
| 20 | humanly | humanly | ADV | _ | 21 unimaginable | advmod |
| 21 | unimaginable | unimaginable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 song | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 song | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the whole thing | a song and a song of emotions and thoughts | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the whole thing not said here | humanly, therefore property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sing | emotions and thoughts | nom song «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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