In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 107
No _kaimyō_ was written upon any of the transparencies.
What happens: write · To what, where: kaimyō
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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 kaimyō | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 kaimyō | punct |
| 3 | kaimyō | kaimyō | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 written | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 kaimyō | punct |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 written | aux:pass |
| 6 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 any | case |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 written | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 transparencies | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 transparencies | det |
| 11 | transparencies | transparency | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 any | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past · passive | no kaimyō | upon any of the transparencies | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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