In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 13
Happy at having performed this Buddhist act of merit, the priest then resumed his walk.
Who acts: Buddhist act, merit, priest · What happens: perform, resume, act, walk · To what, where: walk
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 (Buddhist act, merit, priest), 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 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 4 performed | mark |
| 3 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 performed | aux |
| 4 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Happy | xcomp |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 act | det |
| 6 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 act | amod |
| 7 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 resumed | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 merit | case |
| 9 | merit | merit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 act | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 priest | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 priest | det |
| 12 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 merit | conj |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 resumed | advmod |
| 14 | resumed | resume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 performed | ccomp |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 walk | nmod:poss |
| 16 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 resumed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perform | gerund · perfect | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | resume | past | this Buddhist act of merit and the priest | priest's walk | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | act | merit and the priest | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | walk | priest | nom walk «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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