In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 11
Accordingly, in the old days, every form of trouble was encountered with a poem.
What happens: encounter, form · To what, where: form, trouble
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 8. 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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 6 days | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Accordingly | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 days | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 days | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 days | amod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 encountered | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 days | punct |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 form | det |
| 9 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 encountered | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 trouble | case |
| 11 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 form | nmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 encountered | aux:pass |
| 13 | encountered | encounter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 poem | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 poem | det |
| 16 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 encountered | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 encountered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | encounter | past · passive | every form of trouble | day | with a poem | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | form | trouble | nom form «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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