In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 58
Lizard-like it takes the grey tints of the rude grey coast on which it rests,—curving along a little bay.
Who acts: it, town · What happens: take, rest, curve · To what, where: grey tints, rude grey coast
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 (it, town), 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 | Lizard | Lizard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 takes | vocative |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lizard | punct |
| 3 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 5 takes | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 takes | nsubj |
| 5 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tints | det |
| 7 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tints | amod |
| 8 | tints | tint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 takes | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 coast | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 coast | det |
| 11 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 coast | amod |
| 12 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 coast | amod |
| 13 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tints | nmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 rests | obl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rests | nsubj |
| 17 | rests | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 coast | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 takes | punct |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 curving | punct |
| 20 | curving | curve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 takes | advcl |
| 21 | along | along | ADP | _ | 24 bay | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 bay | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bay | amod |
| 24 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 curving | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | it | the grey tints of the rude grey coast | Lizard vocative | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tint=Theme | |||
| 2 | rest | present | town | the rude grey coast | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Location | ||||
| 3 | curve | gerund | along a little bay | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |
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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