In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 76
At the coming of a typhoon, the boats are moved far back into the streets.
What happens: come, move · To what, where: boats, typhoon
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: 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 | _ | 6 typhoon | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 typhoon | det |
| 3 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 typhoon | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 typhoon | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 typhoon | det |
| 6 | typhoon | typhoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 moved | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 typhoon | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boats | det |
| 9 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 moved | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 moved | aux:pass |
| 11 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 back | advmod |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 moved | advmod |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 streets | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 streets | det |
| 16 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 moved | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | move | present · passive | the boats | the typhoon | into the streets | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: subject=Theme at typhoon=Source into street=Trajectory |
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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