In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 171
Buddhist priests have long enjoyed a reputation as teachers of the latter.
What happens: enjoy · To what, where: Buddhist priests
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 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 priests | amod |
| 2 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 enjoyed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 enjoyed | aux |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 enjoyed | advmod |
| 5 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 reputation | det |
| 7 | reputation | reputation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enjoyed | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 teachers | case |
| 9 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 reputation | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 latter | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 latter | det |
| 12 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 teachers | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 enjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enjoy | present · perfect · passive | Buddhist priests | a reputation obj; long property | 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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