In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 52
Infants delight to break these by poking their fingers through the soft paper: then the wind blows through the holes.
Who acts: Infants, wind · What happens: delight, break, poke, blow · To what, where: these, fingers, holes
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 (Infants, wind), 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 | Infants | infant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 delight | nsubj |
| 2 | delight | delight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 break | mark |
| 4 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 delight | xcomp |
| 5 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 break | obj |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 poking | mark |
| 7 | poking | poke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 break | advcl |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 poking | obj |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 paper | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 paper | det |
| 12 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 paper | amod |
| 13 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 poking | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 blows | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 blows | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wind | det |
| 17 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blows | nsubj |
| 18 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 delight | parataxis |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 holes | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 holes | det |
| 21 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 blows | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 delight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | delight | present | Infants | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | break | to-infinitive | Infants not said here | these | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Patient | ||||
| 3 | poke | gerund | Infants not said here | Infants's fingers | through the soft paper | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent finger=Instrument through paper=Patient | |||
| 4 | blow | present | the wind | the holes | then | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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