In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 73

All of us dream; none are fully awake; and many, who pass for the wise of the world, know even less of the truth than my dog that howls in the night.

Who acts: All, none, dog · What happens: dream, be, pass, know, howl · To what, where: less

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 (All, none, dog), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 dream	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 us	case
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 All	nmod
4	dream	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 awake	punct
6	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	9 awake	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 awake	cop
8	fully	fully	ADV	_	9 awake	advmod
9	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dream	advcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 many	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 many	cc
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dream	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pass	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 pass	nsubj
15	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 many	parataxis
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 wise	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wise	det
18	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pass	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 world	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 world	det
21	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wise	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 know	punct
23	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 pass	parataxis
24	even	even	ADV	_	25 less	advmod
25	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 know	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 truth	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 truth	det
28	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 less	obl
29	than	than	ADP	_	31 dog	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 dog	nmod:poss
31	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 truth	nmod
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 howls	nsubj
33	howls	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 dog	acl:relcl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 night	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 night	det
36	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 howls	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dream	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	dream	present	All of us				vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	none			awake, fully property	tree rules
3	pass	present				for the wise of the world; who nsubj	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	know	present		less of the truth than my dog			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer less=Stimulus
5	howl	present	my dog		night		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 73

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 73