In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 80
Ranged along the sea-wall to dry, they might at some distance be mistaken for habitations or huts of some sort.
What happens: range, dry, mistake · To what, where: sea wall, wall
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 | Ranged | range | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 wall | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wall | det |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wall | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 sea | punct |
| 6 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ranged | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 dry | mark |
| 8 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wall | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mistaken | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 mistaken | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 mistaken | aux |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 distance | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 distance | det |
| 14 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mistaken | obl |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 mistaken | aux:pass |
| 16 | mistaken | mistake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Ranged | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 habitations | case |
| 18 | habitations | habitation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 mistaken | obl |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 huts | cc |
| 20 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 habitations | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sort | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 sort | det |
| 23 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 huts | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ranged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | range | participle | the sea wall | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along wall=Location | |||||
| 2 | dry | to-infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | mistake | might · passive | wall | at some distance; for habitations or huts of some sort | 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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