In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 111
At once he left his hut, and, taking with him the pieces of the tile, hurried to the neighboring town in search of the tilemaker.
Who acts: Shōko · What happens: leave, take, hurry, neighbor, search · To what, where: hut, pieces, neighboring town, tilemaker
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 once | case |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 left | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hut | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 taking | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 taking | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 taking | punct |
| 10 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 left | advcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 taking | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pieces | det |
| 14 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 taking | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 tile | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tile | det |
| 17 | tile | tile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pieces | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hurried | punct |
| 19 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 pieces | acl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 town | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 town | det |
| 22 | neighboring | neighbor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 town | amod |
| 23 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hurried | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 search | case |
| 25 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 town | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 tilemaker | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tilemaker | det |
| 28 | tilemaker | tilemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 search | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Shōko | Shōko's hut | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hut=Theme at once=Location | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | Shōko not said here | the pieces of the tile | with Shōko | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | |||
| 3 | hurry | participle | the pieces of the tile not said here | the neighboring town in search of the tilemaker | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to town=Destination | ||||
| 4 | neighbor | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | search | the tilemaker | nom search «act transitive»: of=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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