In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 60
Stars give being to worlds and devour them; planets assimilate their own moons.
Who acts: Stars, planets · What happens: give, devour, assimilate · To what, where: worlds, Stars, own moons
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 (Stars, planets), 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 | Stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 give | nsubj |
| 2 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 to | cop |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 worlds | case |
| 5 | worlds | world | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 give | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 devour | cc |
| 7 | devour | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 give | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 devour | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 assimilate | punct |
| 10 | planets | planet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 assimilate | nsubj |
| 11 | assimilate | assimilate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 give | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 moons | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 moons | amod |
| 14 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 assimilate | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Stars | worlds | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to world=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | devour | infinitive | Stars not said here | Stars = star | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | assimilate | present | planets | planets's own moons | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Patient |
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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