In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 49
It was now the fourth month of the twelfth Bunsei,—the year 1829 by Western counting; and the cherry-trees were blossoming.
Who acts: bed, cherry trees · What happens: be, blossom · To what, where: fourth month
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 (bed, cherry trees), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 month | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 month | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 month | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 month | det |
| 5 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 month | amod |
| 6 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Bunsei | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Bunsei | det |
| 9 | twelfth | twelfth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Bunsei | amod |
| 10 | Bunsei | Bunsei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 month | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 year | punct |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 year | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 year | det |
| 14 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Bunsei | appos |
| 15 | 1829 | 1829 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 year | flat |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 counting | case |
| 17 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 counting | amod |
| 18 | counting | counting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 year | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 blossoming | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 blossoming | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 trees | det |
| 22 | cherry | cherry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 trees | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 cherry | punct |
| 24 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 blossoming | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 blossoming | aux |
| 26 | blossoming | blossom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 month | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 month | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | bed | the fourth month | now | of the twelfth Bunsei | tree rules | ||
| 2 | blossom | past · progressive | the cherry trees | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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