In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 31
And the priest suffered himself to be led to a place among pines, on the slope of a hill.
Who acts: priest · What happens: suffer, lead · To what, where: priest
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 suffered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 priest | det |
| 3 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suffered | nsubj |
| 4 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 suffered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 led | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 led | aux:pass |
| 8 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 suffered | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 led | obl |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 pines | case |
| 13 | pines | pine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 place | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 slope | punct |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 slope | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 slope | det |
| 17 | slope | slope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 led | parataxis |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 hill | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hill | det |
| 20 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 slope | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 suffered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | past | the priest | priest | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lead | to-infinitive · passive | the priest not said here | to a place among pines; the slope of a hill parataxis | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: to place=Patient |
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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