In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 182
Accordingly we have a total of thirteen packages to start with; but three are to be used in the preliminary sampling, or “experimenting”—as the Japanese term it,—after the following manner.
Who acts: we · What happens: have, start, use, experiment, follow · To what, where: total, three, preliminary sampling
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 (we), 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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 3 have | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 total | det |
| 5 | total | total | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 packages | case |
| 7 | thirteen | thirteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 packages | nummod |
| 8 | packages | package | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 total | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 start | mark |
| 10 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 packages | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 start | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 used | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 used | cc |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 used | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 used | aux:pass |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 used | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 used | aux:pass |
| 18 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 have | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 sampling | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sampling | det |
| 21 | preliminary | preliminary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sampling | compound |
| 22 | sampling | sampling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 used | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 experimenting | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 experimenting | cc |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 experimenting | punct |
| 26 | experimenting | experiment | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 used | advcl |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 experimenting | punct |
| 28 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 term | punct |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 term | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 term | det |
| 31 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 term | amod |
| 32 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | parataxis |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 term | nsubj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 manner | punct |
| 35 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 manner | punct |
| 36 | after | after | ADP | _ | 39 manner | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 manner | det |
| 38 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 manner | amod |
| 39 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 term | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | we | a total of thirteen packages | the Japanese term total and the following manner parataxis; accordingly property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent total=Patient | |||
| 2 | start | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | use | present · passive | three | the preliminary sampling | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | experiment in a quote | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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