In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 79
Embers from the burning temple presently dropped upon neighbouring roofs; and the whole street was soon ablaze.
Who acts: Embers, whole street · What happens: burn, drop, neighbour, be · To what, where: neighbouring roofs
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 (Embers, whole street), 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 | Embers | ember | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dropped | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 temple | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 temple | det |
| 4 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 temple | amod |
| 5 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Embers | nmod |
| 6 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 7 dropped | advmod |
| 7 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 roofs | case |
| 9 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 roofs | amod |
| 10 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dropped | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 ablaze | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ablaze | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 street | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 street | amod |
| 15 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ablaze | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ablaze | cop |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 ablaze | advmod |
| 18 | ablaze | ablaze | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dropped | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | drop | past | Embers from the burning temple | neighbouring roofs | presently property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon roof=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | the whole street | ablaze, soon property | tree rules |
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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