In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 15
Also it is still the good custom to write a poem in time of ill-fortune.
Who acts: era · What happens: be, write · To what, where: good custom, poem
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: who acts (era), 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 | Also | also | ADV | _ | 7 custom | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 custom | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 custom | cop |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 custom | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 custom | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 custom | amod |
| 7 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 write | mark |
| 9 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 custom | acl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 poem | det |
| 11 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 write | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 write | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 fortune | case |
| 15 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fortune | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 ill | punct |
| 17 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 time | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 custom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | era | the good custom | still | tree rules | |||
| 2 | write | to-infinitive | a poem | time | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme |
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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