In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 124
“There was a man of this village who swam home a distance of seven ri, in bad weather, after his boat had been broken.
Who acts: man, village · What happens: be, swim, break · To what, where: distance, bad weather, boat
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 (man, village), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 village | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 village | det |
| 8 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | nmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 swam | nsubj |
| 10 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 village | acl:relcl |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 swam | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 distance | det |
| 13 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swam | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 ri | case |
| 15 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 ri | nummod |
| 16 | ri | RI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 distance | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 weather | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 weather | case |
| 19 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 weather | amod |
| 20 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swam | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 broken | punct |
| 22 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 27 broken | mark |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 boat | nmod:poss |
| 24 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 broken | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 broken | aux:pass |
| 27 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 swam | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | past | a man of this village | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swim in a quote | past | this village | a distance of seven ri | bad weather | home property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | break in a quote | past · perfect · passive | ri's boat | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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