In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 132
All swim here,—even the little children.
What happens: swim · To what, where: little children
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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 swim | advmod |
| 2 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 swim | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 swim | punct |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 swim | punct |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 children | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 children | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 children | amod |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 swim | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | present | the little children | here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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