In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 30
And we can only surmise, in the vaguest way, the meaning of the uneasiness in ourselves.
Who acts: we · What happens: surmise, mean · To what, where: vaguest way, uneasiness
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 (we), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 surmise | cc |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 surmise | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 surmise | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 surmise | advmod |
| 5 | surmise | surmise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 way | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 9 | vaguest | vague | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 way | amod |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 surmise | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 meaning | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 meaning | det |
| 13 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 way | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 uneasiness | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 uneasiness | det |
| 16 | uneasiness | uneasiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meaning | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 ourselves | case |
| 18 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 uneasiness | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 surmise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surmise | can | we | the vaguest way and the meaning of the uneasiness in ourselves | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mean | the uneasiness in ourselves | nom meaning «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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