In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 45
Divine, perhaps, in some unknowable ultimate way,—but certainly not merciful, and still more certainly not loving.
What happens: not love · To what, where: unknowable ultimate way
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: 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 | Divine | divine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 perhaps | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Divine | punct |
| 3 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 9 way | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 way | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 way | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 way | nsubj |
| 7 | unknowable | unknowable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 8 | ultimate | ultimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 way | punct |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 merciful | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 merciful | cc |
| 13 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 15 merciful | advmod |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 merciful | advmod |
| 15 | merciful | merciful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 loving | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 loving | cc |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 more | advmod |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 certainly | advmod |
| 20 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 22 loving | advmod |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 loving | advmod |
| 22 | loving | love | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 merciful | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not love | gerund | still | certainly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
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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