In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 54
Unhappily for her, he disappeared in the press before she could learn through her attendants who he was or whence he had come.
Who acts: legend, daughter, attendants · What happens: disappear, learn, be · To what, where: press, attendants
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 (legend, daughter, attendants), 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 | Unhappily | unhappily | ADV | _ | 6 disappeared | advmod |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 her | case |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Unhappily | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Unhappily | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 disappeared | nsubj |
| 6 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 press | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 press | det |
| 9 | press | press | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 disappeared | obl |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 learn | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 learn | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 learn | aux |
| 13 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 disappeared | advcl |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 attendants | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 16 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 learn | obl |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 come | nsubj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 come | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | cop |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 come | cc |
| 21 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 come | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 come | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | aux |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 attendants | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | past | legend | the press | unhappily property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | learn | could | daughter | daughter's attendants | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | daughter's attendants | legend nsubj; come, whence property | 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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