In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 183
We shall suppose the game to be arranged for a party of six,—though there is no rule limiting the number of players.
Who acts: We, rule · What happens: suppose, arrange, be, limit · To what, where: game, number
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, rule), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 suppose | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 suppose | aux |
| 3 | suppose | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 game | det |
| 5 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suppose | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 arranged | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 arranged | aux:pass |
| 8 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 game | acl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 party | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 party | det |
| 11 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arranged | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 six | case |
| 13 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 party | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 party | punct |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 is | punct |
| 16 | though | though | ADV | _ | 18 is | advmod |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 is | expl |
| 18 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 suppose | advcl |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 rule | det |
| 20 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 is | nsubj |
| 21 | limiting | limit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 rule | acl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 number | det |
| 23 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 limiting | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 players | case |
| 25 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 number | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | shall | We | the game | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent game=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | arrange | to-infinitive · passive | We not said here | the game not said here | for a party of six | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: for party=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | be | present | no rule | there | though property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | limit | gerund | no rule not said here | the number of players | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer number=Patient |
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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