In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 82
According to a story-book called _Kibun-Daijin_, the name of the girl who caused the robe to be made was O-Samé; and she was the daughter of Hikoyemon, a wine-merchant of Hyakushō-machi, in the district of Azabu.
Who acts: girl, calamity · What happens: accord, call, cause, make, be, name · To what, where: story book, robe, daughter, girl · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (girl, 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 book | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 book | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 book | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 story | punct |
| 6 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 book | acl |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Kibun | punct |
| 9 | Kibun | Kibun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Daijin | punct |
| 11 | Daijin | Daijin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Kibun | conj |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Kibun | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 name | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 name | det |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 book | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 girl | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 girl | det |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 name | nmod |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 caused | nsubj |
| 20 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 girl | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 robe | det |
| 22 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 caused | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 made | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 made | aux:pass |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 robe | acl |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 robe | acl |
| 27 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 29 Samé | case |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Samé | punct |
| 29 | Samé | Samé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 was | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 daughter | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 daughter | cc |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 daughter | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 daughter | cop |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 daughter | det |
| 35 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 book | conj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Hikoyemon | case |
| 37 | Hikoyemon | Hikoyemon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 daughter | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 merchant | punct |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 merchant | det |
| 40 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 merchant | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 wine | punct |
| 42 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Hikoyemon | appos |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 machi | case |
| 44 | Hyakushō | Hyakushō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 machi | compound |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 Hyakushō | punct |
| 46 | machi | machi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 merchant | nmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 district | punct |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 district | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 district | det |
| 50 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 merchant | conj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 Azabu | case |
| 52 | Azabu | Azabu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 district | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 book | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | call | participle | a story book and the name of the girl and the daughter not said here | Kibun and Daijin xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | cause | past | the girl | the robe | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition robe=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive · passive | the girl not said here | the robe not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | calamity | the daughter | of Hikoyemon | tree rules | |||
| 7 | name | the girl | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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