In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 66

They are very large,—capable of carrying forty or fifty men each;—and they have queer high prows, to which Buddhist or Shintō charms (_mamori_ or _shugo_) are usually attached.

Who acts: boats · What happens: be, carry, have, charm, attach · To what, where: forty men, queer high prows, Buddhist charms

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 (boats), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 large	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 large	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 large	advmod
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 capable	punct
6	—	-	PUNCT	_	7 capable	punct
7	capable	capable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 large	conj
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 carrying	mark
9	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 capable	advcl
10	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 men	nummod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 fifty	cc
12	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 forty	conj
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 carrying	obj
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 carrying	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 have	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 large	conj
20	queer	queer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 prows	amod
21	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 prows	amod
22	prows	prow	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 have	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 charms	punct
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 charms	nsubj
26	Buddhist	Buddhist	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 charms	compound
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 Shintō	cc
28	Shintō	Shintō	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Buddhist	conj
29	charms	charm	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 attached	nsubj:pass
30	(	(	PUNCT	_	32 mamori	punct
31	_	_	PUNCT	_	32 mamori	punct
32	mamori	mamori	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 charms	conj
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	36 shugo	punct
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 shugo	cc
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	36 shugo	punct
36	shugo	shugo	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 charms	conj
37	_	_	PUNCT	_	29 charms	punct
38	)	)	PUNCT	_	29 charms	punct
39	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 attached	aux:pass
40	usually	usually	ADV	_	41 attached	advmod
41	attached	attach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 large	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 large	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	boats = boat		large property	tree rules
2	be		boats = boat not said here			tree rules
3	carry	gerund	boats = boat not said here	forty men		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
4	have	present	boats = boat	queer high prows		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prow=Patient
5	charm				which nsubj; mamori conj; shugo conj	tree rules
6	attach	present · passive		Buddhist charms and mamori or shugo	usually property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 66

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 66