In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 65
Yukiko came at the summons of the lord, and, in obedience to a sign from him, knelt down beside the couch.
Who acts: Yukiko, obedience · What happens: come, kneel down · To what, where: summons, couch
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, obedience), 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 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 summons | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 summons | det |
| 5 | summons | summon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 lord | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lord | det |
| 8 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 summons | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 knelt | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 knelt | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 obedience | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 obedience | case |
| 13 | obedience | obedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 knelt | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 sign | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sign | det |
| 16 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 obedience | nmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sign | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 obedience | punct |
| 20 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 knelt | compound:prt |
| 22 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 24 couch | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 couch | det |
| 24 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 knelt | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Yukiko | the summons of the lord | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at summon=Location | ||||
| 2 | kneel down | past | obedience to a sign from Yukiko | the couch | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside couch=Location |
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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