In Ghostly Japan, Happy Poverty, sentence 1
_Wafted into my room, the scent of the flowers of the plum-tree Changes my broken window into a source of delight.
What happens: waft, break, scent · To what, where: room, flowers
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Happy Poverty. 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 Wafted | punct |
| 2 | Wafted | waft | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 room | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 room | nmod:poss |
| 5 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Wafted | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 scent | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 scent | det |
| 8 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 room | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 flowers | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 flowers | det |
| 11 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 scent | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Changes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Changes | det |
| 14 | plum | plum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tree | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 plum | punct |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Changes | compound |
| 17 | Changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flowers | nmod |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 window | nmod:poss |
| 19 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 window | amod |
| 20 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Changes | nmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 source | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 source | det |
| 23 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 room | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 delight | case |
| 25 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 source | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wafted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | waft | participle | my room into a source of delight and the scent of the flowers of the tree Changes my broken window | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | scent | the flowers of the tree Changes my broken window | nom scent «cognition 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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