In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 191
The place of the most honored is immediately before the alcove: this is the first seat, and the rest are numbered from it, usually to the left.
Who acts: place, this · What happens: honor, be, number · To what, where: place, first seat, rest
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 (place, this), 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 place | det |
| 2 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 alcove | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 honored | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 honored | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 honored | advmod |
| 6 | honored | honor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 place | acl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 alcove | cop |
| 8 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 11 alcove | advmod |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 alcove | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 alcove | det |
| 11 | alcove | alcove | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 seat | punct |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 seat | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 seat | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 seat | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 seat | amod |
| 17 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 alcove | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 numbered | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 numbered | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rest | det |
| 21 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 numbered | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 numbered | aux:pass |
| 23 | numbered | number | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 alcove | parataxis |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 numbered | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 left | punct |
| 27 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 30 left | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 left | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 left | det |
| 30 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 numbered | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 alcove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | honor | participle | the place not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the place | before the alcove and the first seat | immediately property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | this | the first seat | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | number | present · passive | the rest | place | the left parataxis | 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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