In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 207
_ Borrowing-time, the face of Jizō; repaying-time, the face of Emma.
What happens: repay · To what, where: Borrowing time
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 | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 2 | Borrowing | borrowing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Borrowing | punct |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 face | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 face | det |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Jizō | case |
| 9 | Jizō | Jizō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 face | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 time | punct |
| 11 | repaying | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 time | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 repaying | punct |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 face | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 face | det |
| 16 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 time | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Emma | case |
| 18 | Emma | Emma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 face | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repay | gerund | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: 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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