In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 109
_’ Now the prediction had really been fulfilled at the Hour of the Serpent on the seventeenth day of the fourth month of the Year of the Hare.
What happens: fulfil · To what, where: prediction
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: 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 fulfilled | punct |
| 2 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 fulfilled | punct |
| 3 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 fulfilled | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prediction | det |
| 5 | prediction | prediction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fulfilled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fulfilled | aux |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 9 fulfilled | advmod |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 fulfilled | aux:pass |
| 9 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 Hour | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Hour | det |
| 12 | Hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fulfilled | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Serpent | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Serpent | det |
| 15 | Serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Hour | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 18 | seventeenth | seventeenth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 day | compound |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fulfilled | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 month | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 month | det |
| 22 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 month | amod |
| 23 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 day | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Year | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Year | det |
| 26 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 month | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Hare | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Hare | det |
| 29 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Year | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fulfilled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fulfil | past · perfect · passive | the prediction | now; day; hour | 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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