In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 2
The same legend has furnished the subject of an interesting _Nō_-play, called _Dai-É_ (“The Great Assembly”).
What happens: furnish, call · To what, where: same legend, play · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 legend | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 legend | amod |
| 3 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 furnished | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 furnished | aux |
| 5 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 subject | det |
| 7 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 furnished | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Nō | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Nō | det |
| 10 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Nō | amod |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 interesting | punct |
| 12 | Nō | Nō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 subject | nmod |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 play | punct |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 play | punct |
| 15 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Nō | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 called | punct |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 play | acl |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 Dai | punct |
| 19 | Dai | Dai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 called | xcomp |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 É | punct |
| 21 | É | É | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Dai | conj |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 Dai | punct |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 Assembly | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Assembly | punct |
| 25 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Assembly | det |
| 26 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Assembly | flat |
| 27 | Assembly | Assembly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 play | appos |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Assembly | punct |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 Assembly | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 furnished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | furnish | present · perfect · passive | the same legend | the subject of a interesting Nō obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | play not said here | Dai and É xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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