In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 100
The attendants at once attempted to lift the body from Yukiko’s shoulders, and to lay it upon the bed.
What happens: attempt, lift, lay · To what, where: attendants, body, shoulders, bed
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 attendants | det |
| 2 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 attempted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 attempted | obl |
| 5 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 lift | mark |
| 7 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 attempted | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 body | det |
| 9 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lift | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 shoulders | case |
| 11 | Yukiko | Yukiko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Yukiko | case |
| 13 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lift | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lay | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lay | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 lay | mark |
| 17 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 lift | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lay | obj |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 bed | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bed | det |
| 21 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 attempted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attempt | participle · passive | the attendants | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lift not said to happen | to-infinitive | the body | Yukiko's shoulders | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme from shoulder=Destination | ||||
| 3 | lay | to-infinitive | body | the bed | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon bed=Destination |
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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