In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 98
They are not to be confounded with the _Ma, Yasha, Kijin_, and other classes of evil spirits.
What happens: not confound · To what, where: oni
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 confounded | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 confounded | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 confounded | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 confounded | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 confounded | aux:pass |
| 6 | confounded | confound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 Ma | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Ma | det |
| 9 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Ma | compound |
| 10 | Ma | Ma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 confounded | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Yasha | punct |
| 12 | Yasha | Yasha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ma | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Kijin | punct |
| 14 | Kijin | Kijin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ma | conj |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 confounded | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 classes | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 classes | cc |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 classes | amod |
| 19 | classes | class | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 confounded | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 spirits | case |
| 21 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 spirits | amod |
| 22 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 classes | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 confounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not confound | present · passive | oni | with the _ Ma and Kijin; other classes of evil spirits obl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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