In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 192
The original thirteen packages having thus by “experimenting” been reduced to ten, each player is given one set of ten small tablets—usually of gold-lacquer,—every set being differently ornamented.
Who acts: original thirteen packages · What happens: have, experiment, reduce, give, ornament · To what, where: ten, player, set, original thirteen packages
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 (original thirteen packages), 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 | 4 packages | det |
| 2 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 packages | amod |
| 3 | thirteen | thirteen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 packages | compound |
| 4 | packages | package | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 packages | acl |
| 6 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 having | advmod |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 experimenting | mark |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 experimenting | punct |
| 9 | experimenting | experiment | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 having | advcl |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 experimenting | punct |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 reduced | aux:pass |
| 12 | reduced | reduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 experimenting | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 ten | case |
| 14 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 reduced | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 given | punct |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 player | det |
| 17 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 given | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 given | aux:pass |
| 19 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 reduced | conj |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 set | nummod |
| 21 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 given | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 tablets | case |
| 23 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 tablets | nummod |
| 24 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tablets | amod |
| 25 | tablets | tablet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 set | nmod |
| 26 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 lacquer | punct |
| 27 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 31 lacquer | advmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 lacquer | case |
| 29 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lacquer | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 gold | punct |
| 31 | lacquer | lacquer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 packages | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 set | punct |
| 33 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 set | punct |
| 34 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 set | det |
| 35 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lacquer | appos |
| 36 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 ornamented | aux:pass |
| 37 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 38 ornamented | advmod |
| 38 | ornamented | ornament | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 set | acl:relcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 packages | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the original thirteen packages and gold lacquer not said here | thus property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | experiment in a quote | gerund | the original thirteen packages and gold lacquer not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | reduce | participle · passive | the original thirteen packages and gold lacquer not said here | to ten goal | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: to ten=Goal | ||||
| 4 | give | present · passive | each player | one set of ten small tablets obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient set=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ornament | gerund · passive | every set not said here | differently property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.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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