In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 119
It was the voice of my old landlord, Otokichi the fishseller, who had come to look for me, accompanied by his wife.
Who acts: ease, fishseller · What happens: be, come, look, accompany · To what, where: voice
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 (ease, fishseller), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 voice | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 voice | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 voice | det |
| 4 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 landlord | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 landlord | nmod:poss |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 landlord | amod |
| 8 | landlord | landlord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 voice | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Otokichi | punct |
| 10 | Otokichi | Otokichi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 landlord | appos |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fishseller | det |
| 12 | fishseller | fishseller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Otokichi | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 come | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 fishseller | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 look | mark |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 come | xcomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 look | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 accompanied | punct |
| 22 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 voice | acl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 wife | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 wife | nmod:poss |
| 25 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 accompanied | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 voice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | ease | the voice | of my old landlord | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | the fishseller | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | the fishseller not said here | for me | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | accompany | participle | the voice not said here | by voice's wife | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by wife=Destination |
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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