In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 15
—“_Heavily pours the rain on the hat that I stole from the scarecrow!
Who acts: I · What happens: pour, steal · To what, where: rain, hat, scarecrow
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 (I), 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 | _ | 5 pours | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pours | punct |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 Heavily | punct |
| 4 | Heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 5 pours | advmod |
| 5 | pours | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rain | det |
| 7 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pours | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 hat | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hat | det |
| 10 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pours | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 stole | obj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 stole | nsubj |
| 13 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hat | acl:relcl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 scarecrow | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 scarecrow | det |
| 16 | scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stole | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 pours | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour in a quote | present | the rain | the hat | heavily property | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Patient | |||
| 2 | steal in a quote | past | I | the hat | the scarecrow | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent that=Theme from scarecrow=Source |
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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