In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 139
This _makkō_ is said to be identical with the sandalwood-powder so frequently mentioned in Buddhist texts.
What happens: say, be, mention · To what, where: makkō _, Buddhist texts · 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 _ | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 1 This | punct |
| 3 | makkō | makkō | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 _ | compound |
| 4 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | aux:pass |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 identical | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 identical | cop |
| 9 | identical | identical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | xcomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 powder | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 powder | det |
| 12 | sandalwood | sandalwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 powder | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 sandalwood | punct |
| 14 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 identical | obl |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 mentioned | advmod |
| 16 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 17 mentioned | advmod |
| 17 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 texts | case |
| 19 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 texts | amod |
| 20 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 mentioned | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | this makkō _ | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | with the sandalwood powder; identical property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | mention speech: other | participle | Buddhist texts | frequently property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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