In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 175
[30] Few popular Buddhist phrases are more often used than this.
What happens: use · To what, where: 30 Few popular Buddhist phrases
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 30 | punct |
| 2 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 phrases | nummod |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 30 | punct |
| 4 | Few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 phrases | amod |
| 5 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 phrases | amod |
| 6 | Buddhist | Buddhist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 phrases | compound |
| 7 | phrases | phrase | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 used | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 used | aux:pass |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 often | advmod |
| 10 | often | often | ADV | _ | 11 used | advmod |
| 11 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 this | case |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 used | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · passive | 30 Few popular Buddhist phrases | than this; often property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/24/175/