In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 53
Nearly two hundred and fifty years ago, the daughter of a rich merchant of the city of the Shōguns, while attending some temple-festival, perceived in the crowd a young samurai of remarkable beauty, and immediately fell in love with him.
What happens: attend, perceive, fall · To what, where: temple festival, crowd, love
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 | Nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 3 hundred | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hundred | compound |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fifty | cc |
| 5 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hundred | conj |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ago | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 daughter | det |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ago | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 merchant | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 merchant | det |
| 13 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 merchant | amod |
| 14 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 daughter | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 city | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 city | det |
| 17 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 merchant | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Shōguns | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Shōguns | det |
| 20 | Shōguns | Shōgun | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 city | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 attending | punct |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 attending | mark |
| 23 | attending | attend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 daughter | conj |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 festival | det |
| 25 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 festival | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 temple | punct |
| 27 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 attending | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 perceived | punct |
| 29 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 festival | acl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 crowd | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 crowd | det |
| 32 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 perceived | obl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 samurai | det |
| 34 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 samurai | amod |
| 35 | samurai | samurai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 crowd | appos |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 beauty | case |
| 37 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 beauty | amod |
| 38 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 samurai | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 fell | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 fell | cc |
| 41 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 42 fell | advmod |
| 42 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 samurai | conj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 love | case |
| 44 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 fell | obl |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 him | case |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 fell | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ago | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend | gerund | some temple festival | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme festival=Goal | |||||
| 2 | perceive | participle | some temple festival not said here | the crowd | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | love | with legend; immediately property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=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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