In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 73
To get them in or out of the water is a heavy job; but the whole village helps.
Who acts: whole village · What happens: get, be, help · To what, where: boats, heavy job
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 (whole village), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 get | mark |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 helps | advcl |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 get | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 get | advmod |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 job | cc |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 job | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 job | obl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 job | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 job | det |
| 12 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 job | amod |
| 13 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 in | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 helps | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 helps | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 village | det |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 village | amod |
| 18 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 helps | nsubj |
| 19 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | to-infinitive | the whole village not said here | boats = boat | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the whole village not said here | a heavy job | of the water | tree rules | |||
| 3 | help | present | the whole village | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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