In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 104
Feeling angry, he seized his tile and flung it at the rat; but the rat escaped unhurt, and the tile was broken.
Who acts: Shōko, rat · What happens: feel, seize, fling, escape, break · To what, where: tile, rat
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shōko, rat), 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 | Feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 seized | advcl |
| 2 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Feeling | xcomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Feeling | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seized | nsubj |
| 5 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tile | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tile | tile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 flung | cc |
| 9 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seized | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 flung | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 rat | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rat | det |
| 13 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flung | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 escaped | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 escaped | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rat | det |
| 17 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 escaped | nsubj |
| 18 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seized | conj |
| 19 | unhurt | unhurt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 escaped | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 broken | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 broken | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tile | det |
| 23 | tile | tile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 broken | aux:pass |
| 25 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 seized | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | Shōko not said here | angry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | Shōko | Shōko's tile | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tile=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fling | past | Shōko not said here | tile | the rat | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at rat=Destination | |||
| 4 | escape | past | the rat | unhurt property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | break | past · passive | the tile | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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