In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 128
Seven _ri_ means a trifle less than eighteen miles.
Who acts: Seven ri · What happens: mean · To what, where: trifle
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 (Seven ri), 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 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 ri | nummod |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seven | punct |
| 3 | ri | RI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 ri | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 trifle | det |
| 7 | trifle | trifle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 10 eighteen | advmod |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 less | fixed |
| 10 | eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 miles | nummod |
| 11 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 trifle | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Seven ri | a trifle eighteen miles | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trifle=Topic |
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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