In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 167
Incense-parties were invented before the time of the Ashikaga shōguns, and were most in vogue during the peaceful period of the Tokugawa rule.
What happens: invent, be · To what, where: Incense parties, vogue
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 | Incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 parties | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Incense | punct |
| 3 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 invented | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 invented | aux:pass |
| 5 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 invented | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 shōguns | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shōguns | det |
| 11 | Ashikaga | Ashikaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 shōguns | compound |
| 12 | shōguns | shōgun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 time | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 vogue | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 vogue | cc |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 vogue | cop |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 18 vogue | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 vogue | case |
| 18 | vogue | vogue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 invented | parataxis |
| 19 | during | during | ADP | _ | 22 period | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 period | det |
| 21 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 period | amod |
| 22 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 invented | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 rule | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 rule | det |
| 25 | Tokugawa | Tokugawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 rule | compound |
| 26 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 period | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 invented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invent | past · passive | Incense parties | during the peaceful period of the Tokugawa rule; time | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | is | past | vogue | 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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