In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 78
The big boats with holy texts at their prows are not the strangest objects on the beach.
Who acts: big boats · What happens: not be · To what, where: strangest objects, beach
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 (big 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boats | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boats | amod |
| 3 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 objects | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 texts | case |
| 5 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 texts | amod |
| 6 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 boats | nmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 prows | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 prows | nmod:poss |
| 9 | prows | prow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 texts | nmod |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 objects | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 objects | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 objects | det |
| 13 | strangest | strange | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 objects | amod |
| 14 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 beach | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beach | det |
| 17 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 objects | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 objects | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | the big boats with holy texts at boats's prows | the strangest objects | the beach | tree rules |
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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