In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 102
Each one of its corners supported a slender slick about sixteen inches high; and these four uprights, united above by cross-pieces, sustained the paper sides.
Who acts: one, four uprights · What happens: support, unite, sustain · To what, where: slender slick, four uprights, cross-pieces, paper sides
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: who acts (one, four uprights), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 supported | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 corners | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 corners | nmod:poss |
| 5 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 6 | supported | support | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 slick | det |
| 8 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 slick | amod |
| 9 | slick | slick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 supported | obj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 inches | case |
| 11 | sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 inches | nummod |
| 12 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 slick | nmod |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 inches | amod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 sustained | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sustained | cc |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 uprights | det |
| 17 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 uprights | nummod |
| 18 | uprights | upright | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 sustained | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 united | punct |
| 20 | united | unite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 uprights | acl |
| 21 | above | above | ADP | _ | 23 cross-pieces | case |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 cross-pieces | case |
| 23 | cross-pieces | cross-piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 united | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 uprights | punct |
| 25 | sustained | sustain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 supported | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sides | det |
| 27 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sides | compound |
| 28 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 sustained | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 supported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | support | past | each one of plank's corners | a slender slick | about sixteen inches | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer slick=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | unite | participle | this four uprights not said here | cross-pieces | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sustain | past | this four uprights | the paper sides | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent side=Theme |
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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