In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 138
_Kō_ is burned; _dzukō_ is rubbed upon the hands of the priest as an ointment of purification; and _makkō_ is sprinkled about the sanctuary.
What happens: burn, rub, sprinkle · To what, where: Kō, dzukō _, hands, makkō _
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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 burned | punct |
| 2 | Kō | Kō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kō | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 burned | aux:pass |
| 5 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 rubbed | punct |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 _ | punct |
| 8 | dzukō | dzukō | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 _ | compound |
| 9 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rubbed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 rubbed | aux:pass |
| 11 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 burned | conj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 hands | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hands | det |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rubbed | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 priest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 priest | det |
| 17 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hands | nmod |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 ointment | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 ointment | det |
| 20 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rubbed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 purification | case |
| 22 | purification | purification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ointment | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 sprinkled | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sprinkled | cc |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 _ | punct |
| 26 | makkō | makkō | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 _ | compound |
| 27 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sprinkled | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 sprinkled | aux:pass |
| 29 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 burned | conj |
| 30 | about | about | ADP | _ | 32 sanctuary | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 sanctuary | det |
| 32 | sanctuary | sanctuary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sprinkled | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 burned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | present · passive | Kō | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rub | present · passive | dzukō _ | the hands of the priest | as a ointment of purification | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon hand=Destination | |||
| 3 | sprinkle | present · passive | makkō _ | about the sanctuary | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme about sanctuary=Destination |
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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