In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 65
The priest was able to sell the robe at a good price; for it was a costly silk, and bore no trace of the tears that had fallen upon it.
Who acts: priest, robe, tears · What happens: be, sell, bear, fall · To what, where: robe, good price, trace
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 (priest, robe, tears), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 priest | det |
| 2 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 able | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 able | cop |
| 4 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sell | mark |
| 6 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 able | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 robe | det |
| 8 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sell | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 price | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 price | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 price | amod |
| 12 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sell | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 silk | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 silk | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 silk | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 silk | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 silk | det |
| 18 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 silk | amod |
| 19 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sell | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bore | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bore | cc |
| 22 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 able | conj |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 trace | det |
| 24 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bore | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 tears | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tears | det |
| 27 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 trace | nmod |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 fallen | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 fallen | aux |
| 30 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 tears | acl:relcl |
| 31 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 fallen | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the priest | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sell | to-infinitive | the priest not said here | the robe | a good price | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent robe=Theme at price=Asset | |||
| 3 | is | past | robe | for a costly silk | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bear | past | the priest not said here | no trace of the tears | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Patient | ||||
| 5 | fall | past · perfect | the tears | robe | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon it=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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