In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 144
And as often as he did thus, the Buddha never failed to come on the following day at the exact time desired.”
Who acts: Sudatta, Buddha · What happens: do, not fail, come, follow, desire · To what, where: exact time
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 (Sudatta, Buddha), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 did | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 often | advmod |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 did | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 did | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 did | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 failed | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Buddha | det |
| 10 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 failed | nsubj |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 failed | advmod |
| 12 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 did | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 failed | xcomp |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 day | det |
| 17 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 day | amod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 21 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 time | amod |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl |
| 23 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 time | acl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Sudatta | often, thus property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not fail | past | the Buddha | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | the Buddha not said here | day; time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | desire | participle | the exact time not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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