In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 111
But the commercial and industrial questions relating to Japanese incense represent the least interesting part of a remarkably curious subject.
Who acts: commercial questions · What happens: relate, represent · To what, where: least interesting part
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 (commercial questions), 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 | _ | 11 represent | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 questions | det |
| 3 | commercial | commercial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 questions | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 industrial | cc |
| 5 | industrial | industrial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 commercial | conj |
| 6 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 represent | nsubj |
| 7 | relating | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 questions | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 incense | case |
| 9 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 incense | amod |
| 10 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 relating | obl |
| 11 | represent | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 part | det |
| 13 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 part | amod |
| 14 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 part | amod |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 represent | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 subject | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 subject | det |
| 18 | remarkably | remarkably | ADV | _ | 19 curious | advmod |
| 19 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 subject | amod |
| 20 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 part | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 represent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | gerund | the commercial questions not said here | to Japanese incense | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to incense=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | represent | present | the commercial questions | the least interesting part of a curious subject | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot part=Theme |
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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