In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 132
It contains an allusion to the curious ceremony called _Kai-gen_, or “Eye-Opening.”
Who acts: part, curious ceremony · What happens: contain, call · To what, where: allusion, Kai gen · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (part, curious ceremony), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 contains | nsubj |
| 2 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 allusion | det |
| 4 | allusion | allusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 contains | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ceremony | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ceremony | det |
| 7 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ceremony | amod |
| 8 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 contains | obl |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ceremony | acl |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 gen | punct |
| 11 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 gen | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Kai | punct |
| 13 | gen | gen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | obl |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Opening | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 Opening | cc |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Opening | punct |
| 18 | Eye | Eye | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Opening | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Eye | punct |
| 20 | Opening | Opening | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 contains | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 Opening | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 contains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | part | a allusion | to the curious ceremony; Eye Opening parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | participle | the curious ceremony not said here | Kai gen | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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