In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 62
_ The shop-boy in front of the temple-gate repeats the sutra which he never learned.
Who acts: shop boy, boy · What happens: repeat, not learn · To what, where: sutra
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 (shop boy, boy), 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 | _ | 13 repeats | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 3 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boy | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 shop | punct |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 repeats | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 front | case |
| 7 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boy | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 gate | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gate | det |
| 10 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gate | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 temple | punct |
| 12 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 front | nmod |
| 13 | repeats | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sutra | det |
| 15 | sutra | sutra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 repeats | obj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 learned | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 learned | nsubj |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 learned | advmod |
| 19 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sutra | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 repeats | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | present | the shop boy in front of the temple gate | the sutra | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sutra=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not learn | past | boy | the sutra | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic |
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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