In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 39
The priest gladly promised to follow these injunctions; and the Tengu hurried away as if to prepare the spectacle.
Who acts: priest, Tengu · What happens: promise, follow, hurry away, prepare · To what, where: injunctions, spectacle
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, Tengu), 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 | 2 priest | det |
| 2 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 4 promised | advmod |
| 4 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 follow | mark |
| 6 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 promised | xcomp |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 injunctions | det |
| 8 | injunctions | injunction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 follow | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 hurried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hurried | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Tengu | det |
| 12 | Tengu | Tengu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 hurried | nsubj |
| 13 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 promised | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 hurried | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 prepare | mark |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 prepare | mark |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 prepare | mark |
| 18 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hurried | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spectacle | det |
| 20 | spectacle | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 prepare | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the priest | gladly property | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | follow not said to happen | to-infinitive | the priest not said here | this injunctions | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injunction=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hurry away | past | the Tengu | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | prepare | to-infinitive | the Tengu not said here | the spectacle | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spectacle=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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