In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 4
Probably few of my readers are aware of two curious facts relating to this order of composition.
Who acts: few, two curious facts · What happens: be, relate, order · To what, where: composition
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 (few, two curious facts), 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 | Probably | probably | ADV | _ | 2 few | advmod |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 aware | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 readers | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 readers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | readers | reader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 few | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 aware | cop |
| 7 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 facts | case |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 facts | nummod |
| 10 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 facts | amod |
| 11 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 aware | obl |
| 12 | relating | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 facts | acl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 order | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 order | det |
| 15 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 relating | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 composition | case |
| 17 | composition | composition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 order | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 aware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | few of my readers | of two curious facts; aware property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | relate | gerund | two curious facts not said here | to this order of composition | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to order=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | order | composition | nom order «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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