In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 56
Perpetually we eat the dust of our race,—_the substance of our ancient selves_.
Who acts: we, our · What happens: eat, race · To what, where: dust
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 (we, our), 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 | Perpetually | perpetually | ADV | _ | 3 eat | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dust | det |
| 5 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eat | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 race | case |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 race | nmod:poss |
| 8 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dust | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 eat | punct |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 substance | punct |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 substance | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 substance | det |
| 13 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eat | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 selves | case |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 selves | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 selves | amod |
| 17 | selves | self | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 substance | nmod |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 eat | discourse |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | we | the dust of our race | the substance of our ancient selves obl; perpetually property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=Patient | |||
| 2 | race | our | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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