In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 112
His advice was accepted; and the hands’ were amputated at the wrists.
What happens: accept, amputate · To what, where: advice, hands, wrists
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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 advice | nmod:poss |
| 2 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 accepted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 accepted | aux:pass |
| 4 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 accepted | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 amputated | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hands | det |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 amputated | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 8 hands | case |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 amputated | aux:pass |
| 11 | amputated | amputate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 accepted | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 wrists | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wrists | det |
| 14 | wrists | wrist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 amputated | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past · passive | Yedo's advice | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | amputate | past · passive | the hands | the wrists | tree rules |
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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