In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 189
Children often amuse themselves by making little Buddhist images of mud, which melt into shapelessness, of course, if placed in water.
Who acts: Children, little Buddhist images · What happens: amuse, make, melt, place, image · To what, where: sins, little Buddhist images, shapelessness, water, mud
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: who acts (Children, little Buddhist images), 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 amuse | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 amuse | advmod |
| 3 | amuse | amuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 amuse | obj |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 making | mark |
| 6 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 amuse | advcl |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 images | amod |
| 8 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 images | amod |
| 9 | images | image | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 making | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 mud | case |
| 11 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 images | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 melt | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 melt | nsubj |
| 14 | melt | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 images | acl:relcl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 shapelessness | case |
| 16 | shapelessness | shapelessness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 melt | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 placed | punct |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 22 placed | advmod |
| 19 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 of | fixed |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 of | punct |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 placed | mark |
| 22 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 amuse | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 placed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 amuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amuse | present | Children | sins = sin | often property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | make | gerund | Children not said here | little Buddhist images of mud | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset image=Product | ||||
| 3 | melt | present | little Buddhist images of mud | shapelessness | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into shapelessness=Product | ||||
| 4 | place a condition, not said to happen | participle | Children not said here | water | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in water=Destination | ||||
| 5 | image | mud | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=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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