In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 107
Thinking this very strange, he picked up the pieces, and carefully examined them.
Who acts: Shōko · What happens: think, pick up, examine · To what, where: this, pieces, piece
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), 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 | Thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 picked | advcl |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Thinking | obj |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 strange | advmod |
| 4 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 this | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thinking | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 picked | nsubj |
| 7 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 picked | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pieces | det |
| 10 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 picked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 examined | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 examined | cc |
| 13 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 14 examined | advmod |
| 14 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 picked | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 examined | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | gerund | Shōko not said here | this | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pick up | past | Shōko | the pieces | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Topic | ||||
| 3 | examine | past | Shōko not said here | piece | carefully property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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