In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 122
Yukiko cut off her hair, and became a mendicant-nun,—taking the religious name of Dassetsu.
Who acts: Yukiko · What happens: cut off, become, take, name · To what, where: hair, mendicant nun, religious name, Dassetsu
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: who acts (Yukiko), 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 | Yukiko | Yukiko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 cut | nsubj |
| 2 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 hair | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hair | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cut | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 became | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 became | cc |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cut | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 nun | det |
| 10 | mendicant | mendicant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nun | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 mendicant | punct |
| 12 | nun | nun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 became | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 became | punct |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 taking | punct |
| 15 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 cut | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 name | det |
| 17 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 name | amod |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taking | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Dassetsu | case |
| 20 | Dassetsu | Dassetsu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 name | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | past | Yukiko | Tiger's hair | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector hair=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | become | past | a mendicant nun | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | take | gerund | Yukiko not said here | the religious name of Dassetsu | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||||
| 4 | name | Dassetsu | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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