In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 190
[5] The places occupied by guests in a Japanese _zashiki_, or reception room are numbered from the alcove of the apartment.
What happens: occupy, number · To what, where: places, Japanese zashiki, 5, alcove
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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 5 | punct |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 numbered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 5 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 places | det |
| 5 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 5 | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | occupied | occupy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 places | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 guests | case |
| 8 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 occupied | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 zashiki | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 zashiki | det |
| 11 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 zashiki | amod |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 Japanese | punct |
| 13 | zashiki | zashiki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 occupied | obl |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 occupied | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 room | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 room | cc |
| 17 | reception | reception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 room | compound |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 5 | conj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 numbered | aux:pass |
| 20 | numbered | number | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 alcove | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 alcove | det |
| 23 | alcove | alcove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 numbered | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 apartment | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 apartment | det |
| 26 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 alcove | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 numbered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occupy | participle | the places not said here | a Japanese zashiki | by guests | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | number | present · passive | 5 the places or reception room | the alcove of the apartment | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=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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