In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 10
—“_Detaching one corner of the mosquito-net, lo!
What happens: detach · To what, where: one corner
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1. 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 | _ | 4 Detaching | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Detaching | punct |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 Detaching | punct |
| 4 | Detaching | detach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 corner | nummod |
| 6 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Detaching | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 net | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 net | det |
| 9 | mosquito | mosquito | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 net | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 mosquito | punct |
| 11 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 corner | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lo | punct |
| 13 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 4 Detaching | discourse |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Detaching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | detach in a quote | gerund | one corner of the mosquito net | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corner=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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