In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 57
She fancied that by wearing a robe of like quality and color, bearing the same crest, she might be able to attract his notice on some future occasion.
Who acts: image, legend · What happens: fancy, wear, bear, be, attract, notice · To what, where: robe, same crest, notice, future occasion
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 (image, legend), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fancied | nsubj |
| 2 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 wearing | mark |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 wearing | mark |
| 5 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 fancied | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 robe | det |
| 7 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wearing | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 quality | case |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 quality | case |
| 10 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 robe | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 color | cc |
| 12 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 quality | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bearing | punct |
| 14 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 wearing | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 crest | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 crest | amod |
| 17 | crest | crest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bearing | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 able | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 able | nsubj |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 able | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 able | cop |
| 22 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fancied | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 attract | mark |
| 24 | attract | attract | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 able | xcomp |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 notice | nmod:poss |
| 26 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 attract | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 occasion | case |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 occasion | det |
| 29 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 occasion | amod |
| 30 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 attract | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fancied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | past | image | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | wear | gerund | image not said here | a robe of quality and color | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent robe=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bear | gerund | image not said here | the same crest | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crest=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | might | image | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | attract | to-infinitive | image not said here | legend's notice | some future occasion | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Patient | |||
| 6 | notice | legend | nom notice «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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