In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 69
It seems real only for the same reason that the shapes and the pains of an evil dream seem real to the dreamer.
Who acts: It, shapes · What happens: seem, pain · To what, where: same reason, evil dream
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 (It, shapes), 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 | 2 seems | nsubj |
| 2 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 seems | xcomp |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 reason | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 reason | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 reason | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 reason | amod |
| 8 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seems | parataxis |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 seem | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shapes | det |
| 11 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 seem | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pains | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pains | det |
| 14 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shapes | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 dream | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 dream | det |
| 17 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dream | amod |
| 18 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pains | nmod |
| 19 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 reason | acl:relcl |
| 20 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 seem | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 dreamer | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dreamer | det |
| 23 | dreamer | dreamer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 real | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | It | the same reason parataxis; real property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seem | present | the shapes and the pains of a evil dream | the same reason | real property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Attribute | |||
| 3 | pain | a evil dream | nom pain «state 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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