In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 142
When the rich Sudatta wished to invite the Buddha to a repast, he made use of incense.
Who acts: rich Sudatta, Sudatta · What happens: wish, invite, make, use · To what, where: Buddha, use, incense
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 (rich Sudatta, Sudatta), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 wished | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Sudatta | det |
| 3 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Sudatta | amod |
| 4 | Sudatta | Sudatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wished | nsubj |
| 5 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 invite | mark |
| 7 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wished | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Buddha | det |
| 9 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 invite | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 repast | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 repast | det |
| 12 | repast | repast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 invite | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wished | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 incense | case |
| 18 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 use | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | the rich Sudatta | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | invite not said to happen | to-infinitive | the rich Sudatta not said here | the Buddha | to a repast | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buddha=Recipient | |||
| 3 | make | past | Sudatta | use of incense | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product | ||||
| 4 | use | incense | nom use «act transitive»: of=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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