In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 144
Usually about the time of the Bon, the sea gets rough; and I was not surprised to find next morning that the surf was running high.
Who acts: sea, I, surf · What happens: get, not be, find, run · To what, where: next morning
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 (sea, I, surf), 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 | Usually | usually | ADV | _ | 4 time | advmod |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gets | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Bon | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Bon | det |
| 7 | Bon | Bon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 gets | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Bon | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gets | nsubj |
| 11 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gets | xcomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 surprised | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 surprised | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 surprised | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 surprised | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 surprised | advmod |
| 18 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gets | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 find | mark |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 surprised | advcl |
| 21 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 morning | amod |
| 22 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | obj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 running | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 surf | det |
| 25 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 running | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 running | aux |
| 27 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 morning | acl |
| 28 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 running | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the sea | time | of the Bon; rough property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme of bon=Destination | |||
| 2 | not is | past | I | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | I not said here | morning | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | run | past · progressive | the surf | next morning not said here | high property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme morning=Trajectory |
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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