In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 94
Most of the vase is invisible, but I know that it is of bronze, and that its glimpsing handles are bodies of dragons.
Who acts: Most, I, vase, glimpsing handles · What happens: be, know, glimpse · To what, where: bodies · 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 (Most, I, vase, glimpsing handles), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 invisible | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 vase | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 vase | det |
| 4 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Most | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 invisible | cop |
| 6 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 know | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 know | nsubj |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 invisible | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 bronze | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bronze | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 bronze | cop |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bronze | case |
| 15 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 know | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bodies | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bodies | cc |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 bodies | mark |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 handles | nmod:poss |
| 20 | glimpsing | glimpse | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 handles | amod |
| 21 | handles | handle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 bodies | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 bodies | cop |
| 23 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bronze | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 dragons | case |
| 25 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 bodies | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 invisible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Most of the vase | invisible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | vase | of bronze | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | glimpse | gerund | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | vase's glimpsing handles | bodies | of dragons | 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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