In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 84
The people, too, are the people of Old Japan: frank and kindly as children—good children,—honest to a fault, innocent of the further world, loyal to the ancient traditions and the ancient gods.
Who acts: people · What happens: be · To what, where: people
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 (people), 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 | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 people | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 people | punct |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 people | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 people | punct |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 people | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Japan | case |
| 10 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Japan | amod |
| 11 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 people | nmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 frank | punct |
| 13 | frank | frank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 people | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 children | cc |
| 15 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 17 children | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 children | case |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 frank | conj |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 children | punct |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 children | amod |
| 20 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 people | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 people | punct |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 honest | punct |
| 23 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 people | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 fault | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 fault | det |
| 26 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 honest | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 innocent | punct |
| 28 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 honest | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 world | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 world | det |
| 31 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 world | amod |
| 32 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 innocent | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 loyal | punct |
| 34 | loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 honest | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 traditions | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 traditions | det |
| 37 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 traditions | amod |
| 38 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 loyal | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 gods | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 gods | det |
| 41 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 gods | amod |
| 42 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 traditions | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 people | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the people | the people and good children | of Old Japan; frank and children parataxis; good children conj | 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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