In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 178
But in Japanese folklore the _Ma_ have a part much resembling that occupied in Western popular superstition by goblins and fairies.
What happens: have, resemble · To what, where: part, Japanese folklore, Western popular superstition
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 have | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 folklore | case |
| 3 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 folklore | amod |
| 4 | folklore | folklore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Ma | det |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ma | punct |
| 7 | Ma | Ma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 folklore | appos |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 folklore | punct |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 part | det |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 resembling | amod |
| 13 | resembling | resemble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 have | advcl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 occupied | mark |
| 15 | occupied | occupied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 resembling | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 superstition | case |
| 17 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 superstition | amod |
| 18 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 superstition | amod |
| 19 | superstition | superstition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 resembling | obl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 goblins | case |
| 21 | goblins | goblin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 superstition | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fairies | cc |
| 23 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 goblins | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a part | Japanese folklore | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient | ||||
| 2 | resemble | gerund | Western popular superstition by goblins and fairies | occupied property | tree rules |
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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