In Ghostly Japan, Record of a Kō-kwai., sentence 4
Guesses recorded by numbers on the tablet; correct being marked *
What happens: record, mark · To what, where: Guesses
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Record of a Kō-kwai.. 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 | Guesses | guess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 marked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Guesses | acl |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 numbers | case |
| 4 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 recorded | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 tablet | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tablet | det |
| 7 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 numbers | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 correct | punct |
| 9 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 marked | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 marked | aux:pass |
| 11 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | * | * | PUNCT | _ | 11 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | record | participle | Guesses not said here | by numbers on the tablet | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mark | gerund · passive | Guesses | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
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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