In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 12
It had not been seriously hurt, and was able to fly away.
What happens: not hurt, be, fly away · To what, where: pity
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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hurt | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 hurt | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 hurt | aux:pass |
| 5 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 6 hurt | advmod |
| 6 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 able | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 able | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 able | cop |
| 10 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hurt | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 fly | mark |
| 12 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | xcomp |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 fly | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hurt | past · perfect · passive | pity | seriously property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fly away | to-infinitive | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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