In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 11
The reader will have noticed that the four kinds of incense used were designated by very pretty names.
Who acts: pretty names · What happens: notice, use, designate · To what, where: reader, four kinds · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (pretty names), 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 reader | det |
| 2 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 noticed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 noticed | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 noticed | aux |
| 5 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 designated | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kinds | det |
| 8 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 kinds | nummod |
| 9 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 designated | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 incense | case |
| 11 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kinds | nmod |
| 12 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 kinds | acl |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 designated | aux:pass |
| 14 | designated | designate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 noticed | ccomp |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 names | case |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 pretty | advmod |
| 17 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 names | amod |
| 18 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 designated | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | future · perfect · passive | the reader | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | use | participle | the four kinds of incense not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | designate | past · passive | pretty names | the four kinds of incense | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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