In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 196
This time, of course, he does not announce what kind of incense he has used.
Who acts: set · What happens: not announce, use · To what, where: kind
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 (set), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 announce | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 course | case |
| 5 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 time | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 announce | nsubj |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 announce | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 announce | advmod |
| 10 | announce | announce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 12 kind | det |
| 12 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 announce | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 incense | case |
| 14 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kind | nmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 used | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 used | aux |
| 17 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 kind | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 announce | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not announce speech: other | present · do-support | set | what kind of incense | time | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme | |||
| 2 | use | present · perfect | set | what kind of incense not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient |
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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