In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 149
[2] “The Praise of Pious Observances.”
What happens: praise · To what, where: Praise, Pious Observances
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 2 | punct |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 Praise | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 2 | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Praise | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Praise | det |
| 6 | Praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Observances | case |
| 8 | Pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Observances | amod |
| 9 | Observances | observance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Praise | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Praise | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Praise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | praise in a quote | Pious Observances | nom praise «communication 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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