In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 100
The bull-headed demons are called _Go-zu;_ the horse-headed _Mé-zu_.
What happens: call, head · To what, where: headed demons · 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 2. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 demons | det |
| 2 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 headed | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 bull | punct |
| 4 | headed | headed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 demons | amod |
| 5 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 called | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 called | aux:pass |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 9 | Go | Go | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 _ | flat |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 zu | punct |
| 11 | zu | zu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 _ | appos |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 zu | punct |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 zu | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 zu | det |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 headed | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 horse | punct |
| 17 | headed | head | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 zu | amod |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 zu | punct |
| 19 | Mé | Mé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 zu | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Mé | punct |
| 21 | zu | zu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 zu | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | the headed demons | _ xcomp; the headed Mé zu xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | head | participle | horse compound | vn conduct-111.1 «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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