In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 97
[15] _Yasha_ (Sanscrit _Yaksha_), a man-devouring demon.
What happens: devour · To what, where: 15
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 15 | punct |
| 2 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 15 | punct |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Yasha | punct |
| 5 | Yasha | Yasha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 15 | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Yasha | punct |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sanscrit | punct |
| 8 | Sanscrit | Sanscrit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Yasha | appos |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Yaksha | punct |
| 10 | Yaksha | Yaksha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sanscrit | conj |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sanscrit | punct |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sanscrit | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 demon | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 demon | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 devouring | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 man | punct |
| 17 | devouring | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 demon | amod |
| 18 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Yasha | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 15 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | devour | gerund | man compound | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: 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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