In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 49
Instantly with a shock as of earthquake the stupendous spectacle disappeared; and the priest found himself alone in the dark, kneeling upon the grass of the mountain-side.
Who acts: shock, priest · What happens: disappear, find, kneel · To what, where: priest, dark, grass
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 (shock, 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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 4 shock | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 shock | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 shock | det |
| 4 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 disappeared | nsubj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 7 earthquake | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 as | fixed |
| 7 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shock | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spectacle | det |
| 9 | stupendous | stupendous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 spectacle | amod |
| 10 | spectacle | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 disappeared | nsubj |
| 11 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 priest | det |
| 15 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | nsubj |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 disappeared | conj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 found | obj |
| 18 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 16 found | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 dark | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dark | det |
| 21 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 kneeling | punct |
| 23 | kneeling | kneel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 found | advcl |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 grass | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 grass | det |
| 26 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kneeling | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 side | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 side | det |
| 29 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 side | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 mountain | punct |
| 31 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 grass | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | past | a shock as earthquake | the stupendous spectacle nsubj | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | the priest | priest | the dark | alone property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | ||
| 3 | kneel | gerund | the priest not said here | the grass of the mountain side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon grass=Location |
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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