In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 72
And the robe was given a third time to the temple; and the priest wondered and doubted.
Who acts: priest · What happens: give, wonder, doubt · To what, where: robe
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), 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 | _ | 5 given | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 robe | det |
| 3 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux:pass |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 temple | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 temple | det |
| 11 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 wondered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wondered | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 priest | det |
| 15 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wondered | nsubj |
| 16 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 doubted | cc |
| 18 | doubted | doubt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wondered | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | the robe | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | past | the priest | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | doubt | past | the priest not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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