In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 99
In Buddhist art they are represented as beings of enormous strength, with the heads of bulls and of horses.
Who acts: enormous strength · What happens: represent, be · To what, where: oni, Buddhist art
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 (enormous strength), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 art | case |
| 2 | Buddhist | Buddhist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 art | compound |
| 3 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 represented | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 represented | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 represented | aux:pass |
| 6 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 beings | case |
| 8 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 represented | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 strength | case |
| 10 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 strength | amod |
| 11 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beings | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 heads | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 heads | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heads | det |
| 15 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 represented | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 bulls | case |
| 17 | bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 heads | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 horses | cc |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 horses | case |
| 20 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bulls | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 represented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | present · passive | oni | Buddhist art | as beings of enormous strength; with the heads of bulls and horses | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as being=Attribute | |||
| 2 | be | enormous strength | nom being «state intransitive»: of=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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