In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 4
FRAGMENT FURISODÉ INCENSE A STORY OF DIVINATION SILKWORMS A PASSIONAL KARMA FOOTPRINTS OF THE BUDDHA ULULATION BITS OF POETRY JAPANESE BUDDHIST PROVERBS SUGGESTION INGWA-BANASHI STORY OF A TENGU AT YAIDZU
Who acts: JAPANESE BUDDHIST PROVERBS · What happens: story · To what, where: FRAGMENT FURISODÉ INCENSE
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 (JAPANESE BUDDHIST PROVERBS), 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 | FRAGMENT | fragment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 INCENSE | compound |
| 2 | FURISODÉ | FURISODÉ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 INCENSE | compound |
| 3 | INCENSE | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 STORY | det |
| 5 | STORY | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 INCENSE | appos |
| 6 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 8 SILKWORMS | case |
| 7 | DIVINATION | divination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 SILKWORMS | compound |
| 8 | SILKWORMS | silkworm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 STORY | nmod |
| 9 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 FOOTPRINTS | det |
| 10 | PASSIONAL | passional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 FOOTPRINTS | amod |
| 11 | KARMA | karma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 FOOTPRINTS | compound |
| 12 | FOOTPRINTS | footprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 SILKWORMS | nmod |
| 13 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 17 BITS | case |
| 14 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 BITS | det |
| 15 | BUDDHA | BUDDHA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 BITS | compound |
| 16 | ULULATION | ululation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 BITS | compound |
| 17 | BITS | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 FOOTPRINTS | nmod |
| 18 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 19 POETRY | case |
| 19 | POETRY | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 BITS | nmod |
| 20 | JAPANESE | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 PROVERBS | amod |
| 21 | BUDDHIST | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 PROVERBS | amod |
| 22 | PROVERBS | proverb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 STORY | nsubj |
| 23 | SUGGESTION | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 STORY | compound |
| 24 | INGWA | INGWA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 STORY | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 INGWA | punct |
| 26 | BANASHI | BANASHI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 INGWA | flat |
| 27 | STORY | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 BITS | parataxis |
| 28 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 31 AT | case |
| 29 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 AT | det |
| 30 | TENGU | TENGU | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 AT | compound |
| 31 | AT | at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 STORY | nmod |
| 32 | YAIDZU | YAIDZU | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 AT | appos |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | story | JAPANESE BUDDHIST PROVERBS | of a TENGU AT | tree rules |
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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