In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 35
Whatever thing invisible to human eyes the senses of a dog may at times perceive, it can be nothing resembling our idea of a ghost.
Who acts: thing · What happens: perceive, be, resemble · To what, where: nothing, idea
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 (thing), 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 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 invisible | nsubj |
| 2 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 invisible | nsubj |
| 3 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 eyes | amod |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 invisible | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 senses | det |
| 8 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 eyes | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 dog | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dog | det |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 senses | nmod |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 perceive | aux |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 times | case |
| 14 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 perceive | obl |
| 15 | perceive | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 invisible | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 nothing | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 nothing | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 nothing | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 nothing | cop |
| 20 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 invisible | parataxis |
| 21 | resembling | resemble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 nothing | acl |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 idea | nmod:poss |
| 23 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 resembling | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 ghost | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 ghost | det |
| 26 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 idea | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 invisible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | may | time | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | can | thing | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | resemble | gerund | our idea of a ghost | tree rules |
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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