In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 151
[3] By _sîla_ is meant the observance of the rules of purity in act and thought.
Who acts: purity · What happens: mean, observe, rule · To what, where: sîla _, 3, rules
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 (purity), 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 3 | punct |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 3 | punct |
| 4 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 meant | mark |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 meant | punct |
| 6 | sîla | sîla | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 _ | compound |
| 7 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meant | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 meant | aux:pass |
| 9 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 3 | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 observance | det |
| 11 | observance | observance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meant | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 rules | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rules | det |
| 14 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 observance | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 purity | case |
| 16 | purity | purity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rules | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 act | case |
| 18 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 purity | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 thought | cc |
| 20 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 purity | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 3 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · passive | sîla _ | the observance of the rules of purity in act and thought obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | observe | the rules of purity in act and thought | nom observance «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | rule | purity in act and thought | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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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