In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 136
But in rich temples, and during great religious ceremonies, much more expensive incense is used.
What happens: use · To what, where: expensive incense, rich temples
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 temples | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 temples | case |
| 3 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 temples | amod |
| 4 | temples | temple | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 used | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 used | cc |
| 7 | during | during | ADP | _ | 10 ceremonies | case |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ceremonies | amod |
| 9 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ceremonies | amod |
| 10 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 used | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ceremonies | punct |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 expensive | advmod |
| 14 | expensive | expensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 incense | amod |
| 15 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 used | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 used | aux:pass |
| 17 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 temples | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 temples | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · passive | expensive incense | during great religious ceremonies | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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