In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 69
And within a little while she died; and the long-sleeved robe was a second time presented to the temple.
Who acts: love, sleeved robe · What happens: die, sleeve, be, present · To what, where: second time, temple
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 (love, sleeved 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 died | cc |
| 2 | within | within | ADP | _ | 5 while | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 while | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 while | amod |
| 5 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 died | obl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 died | nsubj |
| 7 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 time | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 time | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 robe | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sleeved | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 long | punct |
| 13 | sleeved | sleeve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 robe | amod |
| 14 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 time | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 time | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 died | obl |
| 19 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 time | acl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 temple | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 temple | det |
| 22 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 presented | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | love | while | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | sleeve | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | the sleeved robe | a second time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | present | participle | a second time not said here | the temple | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to temple=Recipient |
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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