In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 199
When the round is over, tablet-box and censer are both returned to the incense-burner.
Who acts: round · What happens: be, return · To what, where: tablet, incense burner
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 (round), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 over | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 round | det |
| 3 | round | round | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 over | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 over | cop |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 14 returned | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 over | punct |
| 7 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 returned | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 tablet | punct |
| 9 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tablet | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 censer | cc |
| 11 | censer | censer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tablet | conj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 returned | aux:pass |
| 13 | both | both | ADV | _ | 14 returned | advmod |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 burner | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 burner | det |
| 17 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 burner | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 incense | punct |
| 19 | burner | burner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 returned | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the round | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | present · passive | tablet and box and censer | the incense burner | both property | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to burner=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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