In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 1
[1] This story may be found in the curious old Japanese book called _Jikkun-Shō_.
What happens: find, call · To what, where: story, curious old Japanese book · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu[1]. 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 found | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 4 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 found | aux:pass |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 book | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 book | det |
| 11 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 book | amod |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 book | amod |
| 13 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 book | amod |
| 14 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obl |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 book | acl |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 Jikkun | punct |
| 17 | Jikkun | Jikkun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 called | xcomp |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Shō | punct |
| 19 | Shō | Shō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Jikkun | conj |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 Jikkun | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | may · passive | this story | the curious old Japanese book | 1 discourse | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | call | participle | the curious old Japanese book not said here | Jikkun and Shō xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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