In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 194
After these tablet-sets have been distributed, a box called the “tablet-box” is placed before the first player; and all is ready for the real game.
Who acts: box, all · What happens: distribute, call, place, be · To what, where: tablet sets, tablet box, box, first player · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (box, all), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 distributed | mark |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 sets | det |
| 3 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sets | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 tablet | punct |
| 5 | sets | set | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 distributed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 distributed | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 distributed | aux:pass |
| 8 | distributed | distribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 placed | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 distributed | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 box | det |
| 11 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 box | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 box | det |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 box | punct |
| 15 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 box | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 tablet | punct |
| 17 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | xcomp |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 box | punct |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 placed | aux:pass |
| 20 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 player | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 player | det |
| 23 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 player | amod |
| 24 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 placed | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 ready | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 ready | cc |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 ready | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 ready | cop |
| 29 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 placed | conj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 game | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 game | det |
| 32 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 game | amod |
| 33 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ready | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | distribute | present · perfect · passive | this tablet sets | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | call | participle | a box not said here | the tablet box | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | place | present · passive | a box | the first player | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before player=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is | present | all | for the real game; ready property | tree rules |
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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