In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 38
But a dog’s organs of scent proclaim a faculty immeasurably superior to the sense of smell in man.
Who acts: organs · What happens: proclaim, sense · To what, where: faculty, smell
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 (organs), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 proclaim | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 organs | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 dog | case |
| 5 | organs | organ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 proclaim | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 scent | case |
| 7 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 organs | nmod |
| 8 | proclaim | proclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 faculty | det |
| 10 | faculty | faculty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 proclaim | obj |
| 11 | immeasurably | immeasurably | ADV | _ | 12 superior | advmod |
| 12 | superior | superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 faculty | amod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 sense | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sense | det |
| 15 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 superior | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 smell | case |
| 17 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sense | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 man | case |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 smell | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 proclaim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proclaim | present | a dog's organs of scent | a faculty | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faculty=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sense | smell in man | nom sense «cognition 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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