In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 130
“Probably some might,” the old man replied.
Who acts: old man · What happens: reply
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 (old man), 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 | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 2 | Probably | probably | ADV | _ | 4 might | advmod |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 might | nsubj |
| 4 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 replied | aux |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 might | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 might | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | might | the old man | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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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