In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 118
Then mention should be made of the ancient incenses still preserved in various Japanese temples, and of the famous fragments of _ranjatai_ (publicly exhibited at Nara in the tenth year of Meiji) which furnished supplies to the three great captains, Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Iyeyasu.
Who acts: famous fragments · What happens: be, make, preserve, exhibit, furnish · To what, where: ancient incenses, various Japanese temples, famous fragments, Nara, supplies, three great captains
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 (famous fragments), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 made | advmod |
| 2 | mention | mention | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Then | cop |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 incenses | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 incenses | det |
| 8 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 incenses | amod |
| 9 | incenses | incense | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | obl |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 preserved | advmod |
| 11 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 incenses | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 temples | case |
| 13 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 temples | amod |
| 14 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 temples | amod |
| 15 | temples | temple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 preserved | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fragments | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fragments | cc |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 fragments | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fragments | det |
| 20 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fragments | amod |
| 21 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 ranjatai | case |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 of | punct |
| 24 | ranjatai | ranjatai | X | Foreign=Yes | 21 fragments | nmod |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 exhibited | punct |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 exhibited | punct |
| 27 | publicly | publicly | ADV | _ | 28 exhibited | advmod |
| 28 | exhibited | exhibit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 fragments | acl |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 Nara | case |
| 30 | Nara | Nara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 exhibited | obl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 year | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 year | det |
| 33 | tenth | tenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 year | amod |
| 34 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 exhibited | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Meiji | case |
| 36 | Meiji | Meiji | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 year | nmod |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 exhibited | punct |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 furnished | nsubj |
| 39 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fragments | acl:relcl |
| 40 | supplies | supplies | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 39 furnished | obj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 captains | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 captains | det |
| 43 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 captains | nummod |
| 44 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 captains | amod |
| 45 | captains | captain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 furnished | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 Nobunaga | punct |
| 47 | Nobunaga | Nobunaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 captains | appos |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 Hideyoshi | punct |
| 49 | Hideyoshi | Hideyoshi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Nobunaga | conj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 Iyeyasu | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 Iyeyasu | cc |
| 52 | Iyeyasu | Iyeyasu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Nobunaga | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | then property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | should · passive | of the ancient incenses; of the famous fragments of ranjatai | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | |||||
| 3 | preserve | participle | the ancient incenses not said here | various Japanese temples | still | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | exhibit | participle | the famous fragments of ranjatai not said here | Nara | year | publicly property | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||
| 5 | furnish | past | the famous fragments of ranjatai | supplies | the three great captains | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent supplies=Theme to captain=Recipient |
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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