In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 108
Inside the lantern there was only the flickering candle.
What happens: be, flicker · To what, where: flickering candle, lantern
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 | Inside | inside | ADP | _ | 3 lantern | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lantern | det |
| 3 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 candle | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 candle | det |
| 8 | flickering | flicker | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 candle | amod |
| 9 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the flickering candle | the lantern; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside lantern=Location | ||||
| 2 | flicker | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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