In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 132
The common incense everywhere burned by poor people before Buddhist icons is called _an-soku-kō_.
What happens: burn, call · To what, where: common incense · 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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 incense | det |
| 2 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 incense | amod |
| 3 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 burned | advmod |
| 5 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 incense | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 people | amod |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 burned | obl |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 icons | case |
| 10 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 icons | amod |
| 11 | icons | icon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 burned | obl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 called | aux:pass |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 kō | det |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 an | punct |
| 17 | soku | soku | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kō | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 soku | punct |
| 19 | kō | kō | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 called | xcomp |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | participle | the common incense not said here | before Buddhist icons | by poor people; everywhere property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by people=Location | |||
| 2 | call | present · passive | the common incense | a soku kō xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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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