In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 64
But the possession of such ideas and sentiments does but aggravate the atrocity of our situation, without lessening in the least the gloom of the final problem.
Who acts: possession · What happens: aggravate, lessen, possess · To what, where: atrocity, least gloom, such ideas
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 (possession), 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 | _ | 11 aggravate | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 possession | det |
| 3 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 aggravate | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 ideas | case |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ideas | amod |
| 6 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 possession | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sentiments | cc |
| 8 | sentiments | sentiment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ideas | conj |
| 9 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 aggravate | aux |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 aggravate | cc |
| 11 | aggravate | aggravate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 atrocity | det |
| 13 | atrocity | atrocity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 aggravate | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 situation | case |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 situation | nmod:poss |
| 16 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 atrocity | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lessening | punct |
| 18 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 19 lessening | mark |
| 19 | lessening | lessen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 aggravate | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 gloom | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gloom | det |
| 22 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 gloom | amod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gloom | det |
| 24 | gloom | gloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lessening | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 problem | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 problem | det |
| 27 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 problem | amod |
| 28 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gloom | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 aggravate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aggravate | present · do-support | the possession of such ideas and sentiments | the atrocity of our situation | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus atrocity=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | lessen | gerund | the possession of such ideas and sentiments not said here | the least gloom of the final problem | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | possess | such ideas and sentiments | nom possession «act transitive»: of=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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