In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 205
According to this record the player who used the tablets decorated with the design called “Young Pine,” made but two mistakes; while the holder of the “White-Lily” set made only one correct guess.
Who acts: player, Lily set · What happens: accord, use, decorate, call, make · To what, where: tablets, design, holder, one correct guess · 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 (player, Lily 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 record | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 record | det |
| 4 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 player | det |
| 6 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | nsubj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 used | nsubj |
| 8 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 player | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tablets | det |
| 10 | tablets | tablet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 used | obj |
| 11 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 tablets | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 design | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 design | det |
| 14 | design | design | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 decorated | obl |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 design | acl |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Pine | punct |
| 17 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Pine | amod |
| 18 | Pine | Pine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 called | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 used | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 used | punct |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 mistakes | cc |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 mistakes | nummod |
| 24 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 made | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 holder | punct |
| 26 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 28 holder | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 holder | det |
| 28 | holder | holder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 set | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 set | det |
| 31 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Lily | punct |
| 32 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Lily | amod |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 White | punct |
| 34 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 set | compound |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Lily | punct |
| 36 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 holder | nmod |
| 37 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 set | acl |
| 38 | only | only | ADV | _ | 41 guess | advmod |
| 39 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 guess | nummod |
| 40 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 guess | amod |
| 41 | guess | guess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 made | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | use | past | the player | the tablets | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tablet=Patient | ||||
| 3 | decorate | participle | the tablets not said here | with the design | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with design=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | the design not said here | Young Pine xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | make | past | the player | the holder of the Lily set | accord this record; two mistakes conj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 6 | make | participle | the Lily set not said here | one correct guess | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset guess=Product |
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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