In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 37
Or take this recent composition, by a University student, which has been praised by good judges:—
Who acts: you, good judges · What happens: take, praise · To what, where: recent composition, University student
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 (you, good judges), 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 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 2 take | cc |
| 2 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 composition | det |
| 4 | recent | recent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 composition | amod |
| 5 | composition | composition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 student | punct |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 student | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 student | det |
| 9 | University | University | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 student | compound |
| 10 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 praised | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 praised | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 praised | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 praised | aux:pass |
| 15 | praised | praise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 student | acl:relcl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 judges | case |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 judges | amod |
| 18 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 praised | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | this recent composition | by a University student | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent composition=Theme | |||
| 2 | praise | present · perfect · passive | good judges | a University student | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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