In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 145
[1] “Short [or Epitomized] History of Priests.”
What happens: epitomize · To what, where: History
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 | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 Short | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Short | punct |
| 5 | Short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Epitomized | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 Epitomized | cc |
| 8 | Epitomized | epitomize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Short | conj |
| 9 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 8 Epitomized | punct |
| 10 | History | History | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Epitomized | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Priests | case |
| 12 | Priests | Priest | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 History | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Short | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Short | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | epitomize in a quote | participle | History of Priests | tree rules |
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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