In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 54
[2] More literally:—“body-through-pierce wind—ah!—_shōji_ in the traces of [viz.: holes made by] fingers!”
What happens: make · To what, where: holes, 2
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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 2 | punct |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 2 | punct |
| 4 | More | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 literally | advmod |
| 5 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 2 2 | advmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 wind | punct |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 wind | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 wind | punct |
| 9 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wind | nsubj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 wind | punct |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 wind | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 through | punct |
| 13 | pierce | pierce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wind | compound |
| 14 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 2 | obl |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 ah | punct |
| 16 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 14 wind | discourse |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 ah | punct |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 ah | punct |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 shōji | punct |
| 20 | shōji | shōji | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wind | appos |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 traces | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 traces | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 traces | det |
| 24 | traces | trace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 shōji | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 viz | case |
| 26 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 27 viz | punct |
| 27 | viz | viz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 traces | nmod |
| 28 | .: | .: | PUNCT | _ | 29 holes | punct |
| 29 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 traces | parataxis |
| 30 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 holes | acl |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 fingers | case |
| 32 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 33 fingers | punct |
| 33 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 made | obl |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 shōji | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 shōji | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | participle | holes not said here | by fingers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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