In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 146
This text plainly implies that incense, as a burnt-offering, symbolizes the pious desires of the faithful.
Who acts: text · What happens: imply, symbolize · To what, where: incense, pious desires
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 (text), 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 | 2 text | det |
| 2 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 implies | nsubj |
| 3 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 4 implies | advmod |
| 4 | implies | imply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 incense | det |
| 6 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 implies | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 offering | punct |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 offering | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 offering | det |
| 10 | burnt | burnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 offering | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 burnt | punct |
| 12 | offering | offering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 implies | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 symbolizes | punct |
| 14 | symbolizes | symbolize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 implies | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 desires | det |
| 16 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 desires | amod |
| 17 | desires | desire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 symbolizes | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 faithful | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 faithful | det |
| 20 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 desires | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 implies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imply | present | this text | that incense | a burnt offering conj; plainly property | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot incense=Topic | |||
| 2 | symbolize | present | this text not said here | the pious desires of the faithful | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot desire=Theme |
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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