In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 145
[24] A common saying among the lower classes in reference to an unfortunate or crippled child.
To what, where: 24
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 | _ | 2 24 | punct |
| 2 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 24 | punct |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 saying | det |
| 5 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 saying | amod |
| 6 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 24 | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 classes | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 classes | det |
| 9 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 classes | amod |
| 10 | classes | class | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saying | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 reference | case |
| 12 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 classes | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 child | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 child | det |
| 15 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 child | amod |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 crippled | cc |
| 17 | crippled | crippled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 unfortunate | conj |
| 18 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reference | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 24 | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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