In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 112
He found the tilemaker in the course of the day, showed him the broken tile, and asked him about its history.
Who acts: Shōko · What happens: find, show, break, ask · To what, where: tilemaker, course, broken tile, Shōko
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tilemaker | det |
| 4 | tilemaker | tilemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 course | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 course | det |
| 7 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 course | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 showed | punct |
| 12 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 showed | iobj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tile | det |
| 15 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 tile | amod |
| 16 | tile | tile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 showed | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 asked | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 asked | cc |
| 19 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | parataxis |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 asked | iobj |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 history | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 history | nmod:poss |
| 23 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 asked | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Shōko | the tilemaker | the course of the day | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tilemaker=Topic | |||
| 2 | show | past | Shōko not said here | the broken tile | Shōko | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient tile=Topic | |||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | Shōko | about tile's history | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about history=Topic |
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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