In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 81
And this calamity, which occurred upon the eighteenth day of the first month of the first year of Meiréki (1655), is still remembered in Tōkyō as the _Furisodé-Kwaji_,—the Great Fire of the Long-sleeved Robe.
Who acts: calamity · What happens: occur, remember, sleeve · To what, where: calamity, Tōkyō
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 (calamity), 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 | _ | 27 remembered | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 calamity | det |
| 3 | calamity | calamity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 remembered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 occurred | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 occurred | nsubj |
| 6 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 calamity | acl:relcl |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 9 | eighteenth | eighteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 day | amod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 occurred | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 month | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 month | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 month | amod |
| 14 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 day | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 year | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 year | det |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 year | amod |
| 18 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 month | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Meiréki | case |
| 20 | Meiréki | Meiréki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 year | nmod |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 1655 | punct |
| 22 | 1655 | 1655 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 Meiréki | appos |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 1655 | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 calamity | punct |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 remembered | aux:pass |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 27 remembered | advmod |
| 27 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Tōkyō | case |
| 29 | Tōkyō | Tōkyō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 remembered | obl |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 Furisodé | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Furisodé | det |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 Furisodé | punct |
| 33 | Furisodé | Furisodé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 remembered | obl |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 Kwaji | punct |
| 35 | Kwaji | Kwaji | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Furisodé | conj |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 Furisodé | punct |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Fire | punct |
| 38 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 Fire | punct |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Fire | det |
| 40 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 Fire | amod |
| 41 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Furisodé | conj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 Robe | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Robe | det |
| 44 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 sleeved | compound |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 Long | punct |
| 46 | sleeved | sleeve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 Robe | amod |
| 47 | Robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 Fire | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | past | this calamity | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remember | present · passive | this calamity | Tōkyō | still | as the Furisodé and Kwaji and the Great Fire of the sleeved Robe | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as furisodé=Attribute | ||
| 3 | sleeve | participle | 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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