In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 186
_ Clay-Buddha’s water-playing.
What happens: play · To what, where: Clay
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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 playing | punct |
| 2 | Clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 playing | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Clay | punct |
| 4 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 playing | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Buddha | case |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 playing | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 water | punct |
| 8 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 playing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | gerund | Clay | Buddha nmod:poss; water compound | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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