In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 204
I here offer the translation of such a record: it will serve to explain, almost at a glance, all the complications of the game.
Who acts: I, translation, record · What happens: offer, serve, explain, translate, complicate · To what, where: translation, glance, game
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 (I, translation, record), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 offer | nsubj |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 offer | advmod |
| 3 | offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 translation | det |
| 5 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 offer | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 record | case |
| 7 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 record | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 record | det |
| 9 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 translation | nmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 serve | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 serve | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 serve | aux |
| 13 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 offer | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 explain | mark |
| 15 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 serve | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 glance | punct |
| 17 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 20 glance | advmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 glance | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 glance | det |
| 20 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 explain | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 complications | punct |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 complications | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 complications | det |
| 24 | complications | complication | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 glance | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 game | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 game | det |
| 27 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 complications | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 offer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | present | I | the translation of such record | here | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent translation=Theme | |||
| 2 | serve | future | translation | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | to-infinitive | translation not said here | a glance and all complications of the game | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | translate | such record | nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | complicate | the game | nom complication «act transitive»: of=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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