In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 57
But even so-called inanimate matter is self-devouring.
What happens: call, devour · To what, where: inanimate matter · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 called | cc |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 called | advmod |
| 3 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 5 called | advmod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 so | punct |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | inanimate | inanimate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 matter | compound |
| 7 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 devouring | nmod:desc |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 devouring | aux |
| 9 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 devouring | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 self | punct |
| 11 | devouring | devour | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 called | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | devour | present · progressive | inanimate matter | self compound | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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