In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 29
Japanese pictures, a full comprehension of them requires an intimate knowledge of the life which they reflect.
Who acts: Japanese pictures, intimate knowledge · What happens: require, reflect, comprehend · To what, where: intimate knowledge, poems
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 (Japanese pictures, intimate knowledge), 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 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pictures | amod |
| 2 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 requires | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 comprehension | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 comprehension | det |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 comprehension | amod |
| 6 | comprehension | comprehension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pictures | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 comprehension | nmod |
| 9 | requires | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 knowledge | det |
| 11 | intimate | intimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 knowledge | amod |
| 12 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 requires | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 life | det |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knowledge | nmod |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 reflect | nsubj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 reflect | nsubj |
| 18 | reflect | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 knowledge | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 requires | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | require | present | Japanese pictures a full comprehension of poems | a intimate knowledge of the life | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme knowledge=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | reflect | present | a intimate knowledge of the life | poems = poem nsubj | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | comprehend | poems = poem | nom comprehension «cognition 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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