In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 87
Yukiko knelt motionless, not knowing what to do; but the lord nodded assent.
Who acts: Yukiko · What happens: kneel, not know, do, nod · To what, where: lord assent, lord
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 knelt | nsubj |
| 2 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | motionless | motionless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 knelt | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 knowing | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 knowing | advmod |
| 6 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 knelt | advcl |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 do | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 knowing | xcomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 assent | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 assent | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lord | det |
| 13 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 assent | compound |
| 14 | nodded | nod | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 lord | acl |
| 15 | assent | assent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knelt | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kneel | past | Yukiko | lord assent | motionless property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not know | gerund | Yukiko not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | Yukiko not said here | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | nod | participle | the lord not said here | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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