In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 50
Recently, while passing through a little street tenanted chiefly by dealers in old wares, I noticed a _furisodé_, or long-sleeved robe, of the rich purple tint called _murasaki_, hanging before one of the shops.
Who acts: I · What happens: pass, tenant, notice, sleeve, call, hang · To what, where: little street, furisodé, rich purple tint · 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 (I), 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 | Recently | recently | ADV | _ | 18 noticed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Recently | punct |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 passing | mark |
| 4 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 noticed | advcl |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 street | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 street | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 street | amod |
| 8 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passing | obl |
| 9 | tenanted | tenant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 street | acl |
| 10 | chiefly | chiefly | ADV | _ | 9 tenanted | advmod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 dealers | case |
| 12 | dealers | dealer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tenanted | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 wares | case |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wares | amod |
| 15 | wares | ware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dealers | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 passing | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 noticed | nsubj |
| 18 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 furisodé | det |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 furisodé | punct |
| 21 | furisodé | furisodé | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 noticed | obj |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 noticed | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 robe | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 robe | cc |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 robe | amod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 long | punct |
| 27 | sleeved | sleeve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 robe | amod |
| 28 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 noticed | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 tint | punct |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 tint | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 tint | det |
| 32 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 tint | amod |
| 33 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 tint | amod |
| 34 | tint | tint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 robe | appos |
| 35 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 tint | acl |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 37 murasaki | punct |
| 37 | murasaki | murasaki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 called | conj |
| 38 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 noticed | punct |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 hanging | punct |
| 40 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 noticed | parataxis |
| 41 | before | before | ADP | _ | 42 one | case |
| 42 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 hanging | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 shops | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 shops | det |
| 45 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 one | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | gerund | I not said here | a little street | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through street=Location | ||||
| 2 | tenant | participle | a little street not said here | by dealers in old wares; chiefly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | notice | past | I | a furisodé | long sleeved robe parataxis; recently property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer furisodé=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | sleeve | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | call | participle | the rich purple tint not said here | murasaki conj | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | hang | gerund | before one of the shops | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before one=Location |
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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