In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 67
It is Karma;—it is the creation of thoughts and acts of error;—it is not governed by any providence;—it is a ghastliness, a nightmare.
Who acts: Cosmos, providence, error · What happens: be, not govern, act · To what, where: Karma, creation, Cosmos, ghastliness
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 (Cosmos, providence, error), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 Karma | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Karma | cop |
| 3 | Karma | Karma | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 Karma | punct |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 creation | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 creation | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 creation | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 creation | det |
| 9 | creation | creation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Karma | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 thoughts | case |
| 11 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 creation | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 acts | cc |
| 13 | acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 thoughts | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 error | case |
| 15 | error | error | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 acts | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 governed | punct |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 governed | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 governed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 governed | aux:pass |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 governed | advmod |
| 21 | governed | govern | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 creation | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 providence | case |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 providence | det |
| 24 | providence | providence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 governed | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 governed | punct |
| 26 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 ghastliness | punct |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 ghastliness | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 ghastliness | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 ghastliness | det |
| 30 | ghastliness | ghastliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 governed | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 nightmare | punct |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 nightmare | det |
| 33 | nightmare | nightmare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ghastliness | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Karma | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Cosmos | Karma | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Cosmos | the creation | of thoughts and acts of error | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not govern | present · passive | any providence | Cosmos | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | Cosmos | a ghastliness and a nightmare | a nightmare conj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | act | error | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=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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