In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 173
The tea used in these ceremonies is a powdered tea of remarkable fragrance,—the best qualities of which fetch very high prices.
Who acts: tea, best qualities · What happens: use, powder, be, fetch · To what, where: tea, ceremonies, powdered tea, high prices
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 (tea, best qualities), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tea | det |
| 2 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tea | nsubj |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tea | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 ceremonies | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 ceremonies | det |
| 6 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 used | obl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 tea | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tea | det |
| 9 | powdered | powder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 tea | amod |
| 10 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fragrance | case |
| 12 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fragrance | amod |
| 13 | fragrance | fragrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tea | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 qualities | punct |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 qualities | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 qualities | det |
| 17 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 qualities | amod |
| 18 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tea | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 fetch | nsubj |
| 21 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 qualities | acl:relcl |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 high | advmod |
| 23 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 prices | amod |
| 24 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fetch | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 tea | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | the tea not said here | this ceremonies | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | powder | participle | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | the tea | a powdered tea | of remarkable fragrance; the best qualities parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 4 | fetch | present | the best qualities | high prices | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Theme |
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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