In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 62
And unto whomsoever thinks about these matters, the story of a divine universe, made and ruled by paternal love, sounds less persuasive than the Polynesian tale that the souls of the dead are devoured by the gods.
Who acts: gods · What happens: think, make, rule, sound, devour · To what, where: divine universe, souls
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 (gods), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 thinks | cc |
| 2 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 3 whomsoever | case |
| 3 | whomsoever | whomsoever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thinks | obl |
| 4 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 matters | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 matters | det |
| 7 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thinks | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 story | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 matters | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 universe | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 universe | det |
| 13 | divine | divine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 universe | compound |
| 14 | universe | universe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 story | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 universe | acl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ruled | cc |
| 18 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 made | conj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 love | case |
| 20 | paternal | paternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 love | amod |
| 21 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ruled | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sounds | punct |
| 23 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thinks | conj |
| 24 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 persuasive | advmod |
| 25 | persuasive | persuasive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sounds | xcomp |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 tale | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 tale | det |
| 28 | Polynesian | polynesian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tale | amod |
| 29 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 persuasive | obl |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 devoured | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 souls | det |
| 32 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 devoured | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 dead | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 dead | det |
| 35 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 souls | nmod |
| 36 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 devoured | aux:pass |
| 37 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 tale | advcl |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 gods | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 gods | det |
| 40 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 devoured | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | unto whomsoever; about this matters | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about matter=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make | participle | a divine universe not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | rule | participle | by paternal love | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sound | present | persuasive property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | devour | present · passive | the gods | the souls of the dead | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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