In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 32
In common parlance the phrase “to shave the head” means to become a monk or a nun.
Who acts: phrase · What happens: shave, mean, become · To what, where: head, common parlance, monk · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (phrase), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 parlance | case |
| 2 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 parlance | amod |
| 3 | parlance | parlance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 means | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 phrase | det |
| 5 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 means | nsubj |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 shave | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 shave | mark |
| 8 | shave | shave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 phrase | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 head | det |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shave | obj |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 shave | punct |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 become | mark |
| 14 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 means | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 monk | det |
| 16 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 become | xcomp |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 nun | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 nun | det |
| 19 | nun | nun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 monk | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shave in a quote | to-infinitive | the phrase not said here | the head | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | the phrase | common parlance | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | become not said to happen | to-infinitive | the phrase not said here | a monk or a nun | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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.
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