In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 186
When the censer has gone the round of the party, it is returned to the incense-burner.
Who acts: censer · What happens: go, return · To what, where: round, censer, incense burner
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 (censer), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 gone | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 censer | det |
| 3 | censer | censer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 returned | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 round | det |
| 7 | round | round | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 party | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 party | det |
| 10 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 round | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 returned | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 returned | aux:pass |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 burner | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 burner | det |
| 17 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 burner | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 incense | punct |
| 19 | burner | burner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 returned | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · perfect | the censer | the round of the party | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location round=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | present · passive | censer | the incense burner | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to burner=Destination |
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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