In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 64
It is an old custom to thus dispose of the garments of the dead.
Who acts: robe · What happens: be, dispose · To what, where: old custom
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 (robe), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 custom | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 custom | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 custom | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 custom | amod |
| 5 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 dispose | mark |
| 7 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 8 dispose | advmod |
| 8 | dispose | dispose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 custom | acl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 garments | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 garments | det |
| 11 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dispose | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 dead | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dead | det |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 garments | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 custom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | robe | a old custom | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dispose | to-infinitive | of the garments of the dead; thus property | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=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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