In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 68
In every coast-province of Japan,—and even at different fishing-settlements of the same province,—the forms of boats and fishing-implements are peculiar to the district or settlement.
Who acts: different fishing settlements · What happens: be, form · To what, where: peculiar, coast province, boats
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 (different fishing settlements), 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 | _ | 5 province | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 province | det |
| 3 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 province | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 coast | punct |
| 5 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 peculiar | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Japan | case |
| 7 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 province | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 province | punct |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 settlements | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 settlements | cc |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 settlements | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 settlements | case |
| 13 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 settlements | amod |
| 14 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 settlements | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 fishing | punct |
| 16 | settlements | settlement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 peculiar | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 province | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 province | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 province | amod |
| 20 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 settlements | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 settlements | punct |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 forms | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 forms | det |
| 24 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 peculiar | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 boats | case |
| 26 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 forms | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 implements | cc |
| 28 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 implements | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 fishing | punct |
| 30 | implements | implement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 boats | conj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 peculiar | cop |
| 32 | peculiar | peculiar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 district | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 district | det |
| 35 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 peculiar | nmod |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 settlement | cc |
| 37 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 district | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 peculiar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | different fishing settlements of the same province | peculiar | every coast province of Japan | to the district or settlement; the forms of boats and fishing implements nsubj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | form | boats and fishing implements | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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