In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 148
Some of these, and not the least interesting, occur in prayers, of which the following, from the book called _Hōji-san_[2] is a striking example:—
Who acts: book · What happens: occur, follow, call, be · To what, where: prayers, book, striking example · 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: who acts (book), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 interesting | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 these | case |
| 3 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 1 Some | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 interesting | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 interesting | cc |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 interesting | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 interesting | det |
| 8 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 interesting | advmod |
| 9 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 occur | punct |
| 11 | occur | occur | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 interesting | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 prayers | case |
| 13 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 occur | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 example | punct |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 example | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 book | det |
| 18 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 book | case |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 book | punct |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 book | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 book | det |
| 22 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 example | nsubj |
| 23 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 book | acl |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 san | punct |
| 25 | Hōji | Hōji | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 san | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Hōji | punct |
| 27 | san | san | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 called | parataxis |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 san | punct |
| 29 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 30 2 | punct |
| 30 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 called | xcomp |
| 31 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 23 called | punct |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 example | cop |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 example | det |
| 34 | striking | striking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 example | compound |
| 35 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 occur | obl |
| 36 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 interesting | punct |
| 37 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 interesting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | infinitive | prayers | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in prayer=Location | |||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | call speech: assert | participle | the book not said here | 2 xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the book | a striking example | which obl | 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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