In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 95
Only the lotos is fully illuminated: three pure white flowers, and five great leaves of gold and green,—gold above, green on the upcurling under-surface,—an artificial lotos.
What happens: illuminate, upcurl · To what, where: lotos
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: 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 lotos | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lotos | det |
| 3 | lotos | loto | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 illuminated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 illuminated | aux:pass |
| 5 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 6 illuminated | advmod |
| 6 | illuminated | illuminate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 flowers | punct |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 flowers | nummod |
| 9 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 flowers | amod |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 flowers | amod |
| 11 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 illuminated | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 leaves | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 leaves | cc |
| 14 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 leaves | nummod |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 leaves | amod |
| 16 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flowers | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 gold | case |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leaves | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 green | cc |
| 20 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gold | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gold | punct |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 gold | punct |
| 23 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flowers | conj |
| 24 | above | above | ADV | _ | 23 gold | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 green | punct |
| 26 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 flowers | conj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 surface | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 surface | det |
| 29 | upcurling | upcurl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 surface | amod |
| 30 | under | under | ADP | _ | 32 surface | case |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 under | punct |
| 32 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 green | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 lotos | punct |
| 34 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 lotos | punct |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 lotos | det |
| 36 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 lotos | amod |
| 37 | lotos | loto | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flowers | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 illuminated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | illuminate | present · passive | the lotos | three pure white flowers and five great leaves of gold and gold and a artificial lotos obl; fully property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | upcurl | gerund | 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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