In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 75
You will see a hundred or more persons thus engaged in moving a single boat,—men, women, and children pulling together, in time to a curious melancholy chant.
Who acts: You, hundred persons, children · What happens: see, engage, move, pull together · To what, where: men, single boat, curious melancholy chant
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 (You, hundred persons, children), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hundred | det |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 persons | nummod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 more | cc |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 hundred | conj |
| 8 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 engaged | nsubj |
| 9 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 10 engaged | advmod |
| 10 | engaged | engage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 moving | mark |
| 12 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 engaged | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 boat | det |
| 14 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 boat | amod |
| 15 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 moving | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 men | punct |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 see | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 women | punct |
| 20 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 men | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 children | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 children | cc |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 men | conj |
| 24 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 children | acl |
| 25 | together | together | ADV | _ | 24 pulling | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 time | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 time | case |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pulling | obl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 chant | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 chant | det |
| 31 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 chant | amod |
| 32 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 chant | compound |
| 33 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pulling | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | future | You | men and women and children | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | engage | past | hundred persons | thus property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | move | gerund | hundred persons not said here | a single boat | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pull together | gerund | children not said here | a curious melancholy chant | time | together property | vn slide-11.2 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme to chant=Destination |
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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