In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 6
In the days of the Emperor Go-Reizei, there was a holy priest living in the temple of Saito, on the mountain called Hiyei-Zan, near Kyōto.
Who acts: holy priest · What happens: be, live, call · To what, where: temple, mountain · 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: who acts (holy 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 days | det |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 was | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Emperor | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Emperor | det |
| 6 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 days | nmod |
| 7 | Go | Go | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Emperor | flat |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Reizei | punct |
| 9 | Reizei | Reizei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Emperor | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 days | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 priest | det |
| 14 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 priest | amod |
| 15 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 was | nsubj |
| 16 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 priest | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 temple | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 temple | det |
| 19 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 living | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Saito | case |
| 21 | Saito | Saito | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 temple | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 mountain | punct |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 mountain | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 mountain | det |
| 25 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 living | obl |
| 26 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 mountain | acl |
| 27 | Hiyei | Hiyei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 called | xcomp |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Zan | punct |
| 29 | Zan | Zan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Hiyei | flat |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Kyōto | punct |
| 31 | near | near | ADP | _ | 32 Kyōto | case |
| 32 | Kyōto | Kyōto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Hiyei | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a holy priest | there | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | gerund | a holy priest not said here | the temple of Saito | on the mountain | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in temple=Location | |||
| 3 | call | participle | the mountain not said here | Hiyei and Kyōto 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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