In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 107
But the odor of which I speak is that of cheap incense only,—the incense in general use.
Who acts: I, odor · What happens: speak, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, odor), 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 | _ | 12 incense | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 odor | det |
| 3 | odor | odor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 incense | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 speak | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 speak | nsubj |
| 7 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 odor | acl:relcl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 incense | cop |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 incense | mark |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 incense | case |
| 11 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 incense | amod |
| 12 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 incense | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 incense | punct |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 incense | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 incense | det |
| 17 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 incense | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 use | case |
| 19 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 use | amod |
| 20 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 incense | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 incense | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | I | of the odor | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the odor | of cheap incense and the incense in general use; the incense in general use conj | tree rules |
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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