In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 31
Here, for example, is a little verse, pathetic enough to Japanese comprehension:—
What happens: be · To what, where: little verse
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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 example | case |
| 4 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 verse | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 example | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 verse | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 verse | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 verse | amod |
| 9 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pathetic | punct |
| 11 | pathetic | pathetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 verse | amod |
| 12 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 11 pathetic | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 comprehension | case |
| 14 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 comprehension | amod |
| 15 | comprehension | comprehension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pathetic | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a little verse | for example | 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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