In Ghostly Japan, A Mother’s Remembrance, sentence 1
_Sweet and clear in the night, the voice of a boy at study, Reading out of a book….
What happens: read out · To what, where: book
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, A Mother’s Remembrance. 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 Sweet | punct |
| 2 | Sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 clear | cc |
| 4 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Sweet | conj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clear | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 voice | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 voice | det |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Sweet | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 boy | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 boy | det |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 voice | nmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 study | case |
| 15 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 boy | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Reading | punct |
| 17 | Reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Sweet | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 book | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 book | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 book | det |
| 21 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Reading | obl |
| 22 | …. | .. | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sweet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read out | gerund | a book | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic |
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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