In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 63
After her burial, the long-sleeved robe that she had so much prized was given to the Buddhist temple of which her family were parishioners.
Who acts: sleeved robe, Buddhist temple, image · What happens: sleeve, prize, give, be, bury · To what, where: image, sleeved robe, Buddhist temple, parishioners
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 (sleeved robe, Buddhist temple, image), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 burial | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 burial | nmod:poss |
| 3 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 given | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 burial | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 robe | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sleeved | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
| 8 | sleeved | sleeve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 robe | amod |
| 9 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 given | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 prized | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 prized | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 prized | aux |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 prized | advmod |
| 15 | prized | prize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 robe | acl |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 given | aux:pass |
| 17 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 temple | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 temple | det |
| 20 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 temple | amod |
| 21 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 given | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 parishioners | nsubj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 family | nmod:poss |
| 25 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 parishioners | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 parishioners | cop |
| 27 | parishioners | parishioner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 temple | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleeve | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | prize | past · perfect · passive | the sleeved robe not said here | image | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | give | past · passive | the sleeved robe | the Buddhist temple | after image's burial | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to temple=Recipient | |||
| 4 | is a | past | the Buddhist temple | parishioners | image's family nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | bury | image | nom burial «event 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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