In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 31
Some notes in the long cry,—and the weirdest of them,—oddly resemble those tones of the human voice that tell of agony and terror.
Who acts: human voice · What happens: resemble, tell, intonate · To what, where: tones, human voice · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (human voice), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 notes | det |
| 2 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 weirdest | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 cry | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cry | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cry | amod |
| 6 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 notes | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 notes | punct |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 weirdest | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 weirdest | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 weirdest | det |
| 11 | weirdest | weird | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 weirdest | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 resemble | punct |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 resemble | punct |
| 16 | oddly | oddly | ADV | _ | 17 resemble | advmod |
| 17 | resemble | resemble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 weirdest | conj |
| 18 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 tones | det |
| 19 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 resemble | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 voice | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 voice | det |
| 22 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 voice | amod |
| 23 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tones | nmod |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 tell | nsubj |
| 25 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 voice | acl:relcl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 agony | case |
| 27 | agony | agony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tell | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 terror | cc |
| 29 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 agony | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 weirdest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resemble | infinitive | that tones of the human voice | oddly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | the human voice | of agony and terror | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | intonate | the human voice | nom tone «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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