In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 165
[28] Literally, “has a soul of five _bu_,”—five _bu_ being equal to half of the Japanese inch.
What happens: have, be · To what, where: soul, 28
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 28 | punct |
| 2 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 28 | punct |
| 4 | Literally | literally | ADV | _ | 2 28 | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 28 | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 soul | det |
| 9 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 five | case |
| 11 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 soul | nmod |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 bu | punct |
| 13 | bu | Bu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 soul | appos |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 bu | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 28 | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 28 | punct |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 five | punct |
| 18 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 28 | conj |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 bu | punct |
| 20 | bu | Bu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 five | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 equal | punct |
| 22 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 equal | cop |
| 23 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bu | amod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 half | case |
| 25 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 23 equal | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 inch | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 inch | det |
| 28 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 inch | amod |
| 29 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 half | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 28 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | a soul of five | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | to half of the Japanese inch; equal property | tree rules |
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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