In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 105
The four sides presented five different colors,—blue, yellow, red, white, and black; these five colors respectively symbolizing Ether, Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth,—the five Buddhist elements which are metaphysically identified with the Five Buddhas.
Who acts: four sides, five colors · What happens: present, symbolize, identify · To what, where: five different colors, Ether, five Buddhist elements, five colors
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 (four sides, five colors), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sides | det |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 sides | nummod |
| 3 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 colors | nsubj |
| 4 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sides | acl |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 colors | nummod |
| 6 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 colors | amod |
| 7 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 presented | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 blue | punct |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 blue | punct |
| 10 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 colors | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 yellow | punct |
| 12 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 blue | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 red | punct |
| 14 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 blue | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 white | punct |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 red | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 black | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 black | cc |
| 19 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 blue | parataxis |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 colors | punct |
| 21 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 colors | det |
| 22 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 colors | nummod |
| 23 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 24 | respectively | respectively | ADV | _ | 25 symbolizing | advmod |
| 25 | symbolizing | symbolize | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 colors | acl |
| 26 | Ether | Ether | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 symbolizing | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Wind | punct |
| 28 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Ether | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Fire | punct |
| 30 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Ether | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Water | punct |
| 32 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Ether | list |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Earth | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 Earth | cc |
| 35 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Ether | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 elements | punct |
| 37 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 elements | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 elements | det |
| 39 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 elements | nummod |
| 40 | Buddhist | Buddhist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 elements | compound |
| 41 | elements | element | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 colors | conj |
| 42 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 identified | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 identified | aux:pass |
| 44 | metaphysically | metaphysically | ADV | _ | 45 identified | advmod |
| 45 | identified | identify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 elements | acl:relcl |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 49 Buddhas | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Buddhas | det |
| 48 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 49 Buddhas | nummod |
| 49 | Buddhas | buddha | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 identified | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 colors | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | participle | the four sides not said here | five different colors | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | symbolize | gerund | this five colors the four sides and the five Buddhist elements not said here | Ether Water and Earth | respectively property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ether=Theme | |||
| 3 | identify | present · passive | the five Buddhist elements | with the Five Buddhas; metaphysically property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=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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