In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 79
Even more remarkable are the bait-baskets of split bamboo,—baskets six feet high and eighteen feet round, with one small hole in the dome-shaped top.
What happens: be, split, shape · To what, where: remarkable bait baskets
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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 2 more | advmod |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 remarkable | advmod |
| 3 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 baskets | amod |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 baskets | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 baskets | det |
| 6 | bait | bait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 baskets | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 bait | punct |
| 8 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bamboo | case |
| 10 | split | split | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 bamboo | amod |
| 11 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 baskets | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 baskets | punct |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 baskets | punct |
| 14 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 baskets | conj |
| 15 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 feet | nummod |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 high | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 baskets | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 feet | cc |
| 19 | eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 feet | nummod |
| 20 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 baskets | conj |
| 21 | round | round | ADV | _ | 14 baskets | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hole | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 hole | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 hole | nummod |
| 25 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hole | amod |
| 26 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 baskets | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 top | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 top | det |
| 29 | dome | dome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 shaped | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 dome | punct |
| 31 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 top | amod |
| 32 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hole | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 baskets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the remarkable bait baskets and baskets and eighteen feet and one small hole in the shaped top | of split bamboo; baskets and eighteen feet and one small hole in the shaped top conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | split | participle | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | shape | participle | dome compound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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