In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 58
Substance preys upon substance.
To what, where: Substance preys
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 | Substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 preys | compound |
| 2 | preys | prey | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 substance | case |
| 4 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 preys | nmod |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 preys | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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