In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 73
Nevertheless he ventured to sell the luckless garment once more.
Who acts: priest · What happens: venture, sell · To what, where: luckless garment
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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 3 ventured | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ventured | nsubj |
| 3 | ventured | venture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 sell | mark |
| 5 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ventured | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garment | det |
| 7 | luckless | luckless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 garment | amod |
| 8 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sell | obj |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 sell | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ventured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | venture | past | priest | nevertheless property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sell | to-infinitive | priest not said here | the luckless garment | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garment=Theme |
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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