In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 82
But we may be tolerably sure that she thinks about most things in some odor-relation to the experience of eating or to the intuitive dread of being eaten.
Who acts: we, faith, experience · What happens: be, think, eat · To what, where: odor relation, intuitive dread
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 (we, faith, experience), 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 | _ | 6 sure | cc |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sure | cop |
| 5 | tolerably | tolerably | ADV | _ | 6 sure | advmod |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 thinks | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thinks | nsubj |
| 9 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | ccomp |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 things | case |
| 11 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 thinks | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 relation | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 relation | det |
| 15 | odor | odor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 relation | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 odor | punct |
| 17 | relation | relation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thinks | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 experience | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 experience | det |
| 20 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 relation | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 eating | mark |
| 22 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 experience | acl |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 dread | cc |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 dread | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 dread | det |
| 26 | intuitive | intuitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 dread | amod |
| 27 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eating | conj |
| 28 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 30 eaten | mark |
| 29 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 eaten | aux:pass |
| 30 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 dread | acl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | we | sure, tolerably property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | faith | some odor relation to the experience | about most things | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about thing=Topic | |||
| 3 | eat | gerund | the experience not said here | the intuitive dread conj | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | eat | gerund · passive | the intuitive dread not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» |
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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