In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 39
The old universal belief in the superhuman perceptivities of the creature was a belief justified by fact; but the perceptivities are not visual.
Who acts: old universal belief, perceptivities · What happens: be, justify, not be · To what, where: belief
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 (old universal belief, perceptivities), 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 | 4 belief | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 belief | amod |
| 3 | universal | universal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 belief | amod |
| 4 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 belief | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 perceptivities | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 perceptivities | det |
| 7 | superhuman | superhuman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 perceptivities | amod |
| 8 | perceptivities | perceptivity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 belief | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 creature | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 creature | det |
| 11 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 perceptivities | nmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 belief | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 belief | det |
| 14 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | justified | justify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 belief | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 fact | case |
| 17 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 justified | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 visual | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 visual | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 perceptivities | det |
| 21 | perceptivities | perceptivity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 visual | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 visual | cop |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 visual | advmod |
| 24 | visual | visual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 belief | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 belief | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the old universal belief in the superhuman perceptivities of the creature | a belief | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | justify speech: other | participle | a belief not said here | by fact | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | the perceptivities | visual property | 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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