In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 65
At certain hours the greater part of this rough slope is occupied by ranks of strange-looking craft,—fishing-boats of a form peculiar to the locality.
Who acts: ranks · What happens: occupy, look · To what, where: greater part
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 (ranks), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 hours | case |
| 2 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hours | amod |
| 3 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 occupied | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 part | det |
| 5 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 part | amod |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 occupied | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 slope | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 slope | det |
| 9 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 slope | amod |
| 10 | slope | slope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 part | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 occupied | aux:pass |
| 12 | occupied | occupy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 ranks | case |
| 14 | ranks | rank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 occupied | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 craft | case |
| 16 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 looking | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 strange | punct |
| 18 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 craft | amod |
| 19 | craft | craft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ranks | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 occupied | punct |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 boats | punct |
| 22 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 boats | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 fishing | punct |
| 24 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 occupied | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 peculiar | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 peculiar | det |
| 27 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 peculiar | compound |
| 28 | peculiar | peculiar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 boats | nmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 locality | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 locality | det |
| 31 | locality | locality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 peculiar | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 occupied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occupy | present · passive | ranks of looking craft | the greater part of this rough slope | hour | fishing boats of a form peculiar to the locality obl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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