In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 203
When all the incense has been used, the tablets are taken out of their wrappings, the record is officially put into writing, and the victor of the day is announced.
What happens: use, take out, put, announce · To what, where: incense, tablets, wrappings, record, writing, victor
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: 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 | SCONJ | _ | 7 used | mark |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 incense | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 incense | det |
| 4 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 used | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 used | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 used | aux:pass |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taken | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tablets | det |
| 10 | tablets | tablet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 taken | aux:pass |
| 12 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 used | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 wrappings | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wrappings | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wrappings | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wrappings | wrapping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 taken | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 put | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 record | det |
| 19 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 put | aux:pass |
| 21 | officially | officially | ADV | _ | 22 put | advmod |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 wrappings | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 writing | case |
| 24 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 announced | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 announced | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 victor | det |
| 28 | victor | victor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 announced | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 day | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 day | det |
| 31 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 victor | nmod |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 announced | aux:pass |
| 33 | announced | announce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 used | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · perfect · passive | all incense | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | take out | present · passive | the tablets | tablets's wrappings | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put | present · passive | the record | writing | officially property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | |||
| 4 | announce speech: other | present · passive | the victor of the day | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «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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