In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 53
Loathe the name as we may, we are cannibals;—all being essentially is One; and whether we eat the flesh of a plant, a fish, a reptile, a bird, a mammal, or a man, the ultimate fact is the same.
Who acts: you, we, all, ultimate fact · What happens: loathe, be, eat · To what, where: name, cannibals, One, flesh
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 (you, we, all, ultimate fact), 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 | Loathe | loathe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 name | det |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Loathe | obj |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 may | mark |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 may | nsubj |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 cannibals | aux |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 may | punct |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 cannibals | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 cannibals | cop |
| 10 | cannibals | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Loathe | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Loathe | punct |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 One | punct |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 One | nsubj |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 One | cop |
| 15 | essentially | essentially | ADV | _ | 17 One | advmod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 One | cop |
| 17 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Loathe | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 eat | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 eat | cc |
| 20 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 22 eat | mark |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 eat | nsubj |
| 22 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 One | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 flesh | det |
| 24 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eat | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 plant | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 plant | det |
| 27 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flesh | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fish | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 fish | det |
| 30 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eat | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 reptile | punct |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 reptile | det |
| 33 | reptile | reptile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fish | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 bird | punct |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 bird | det |
| 36 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fish | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 mammal | punct |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 mammal | det |
| 39 | mammal | mammal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fish | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 man | punct |
| 41 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 43 man | cc |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 man | det |
| 43 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eat | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 same | punct |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 fact | det |
| 46 | ultimate | ultimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 fact | amod |
| 47 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 same | nsubj |
| 48 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 same | cop |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 same | det |
| 50 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 man | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Loathe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | loathe | imperative | you not said here | the name | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | may | we | cannibals | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | gerund | all | One | essentially property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | eat | present | we | the flesh of a plant | a man obl; a fish and a reptile and a bird and a mammal parataxis | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient | |||
| 5 | is | present | the ultimate fact | same 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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