In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 115
‘He used to live,’ the tilemaker answered, ‘not very far from here; and I can show you the way to the house.
Who acts: Shōko, tilemaker, I · What happens: use, live, ', answer, show · To what, where: way, you
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, tilemaker, I), 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 | _ | 3 used | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 used | nsubj |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 live | mark |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 used | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ’ | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 live | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tilemaker | det |
| 9 | tilemaker | tilemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ’ | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 far | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 far | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 far | advmod |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 far | advmod |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 answered | ccomp |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 here | case |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 far | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 show | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 show | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 show | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 show | aux |
| 22 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 used | advcl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 show | iobj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 way | det |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 show | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 house | det |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 show | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | Shōko | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | Shōko not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ' | infinitive | Shōko not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | the tilemaker | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | show | can | I | the way | you | to the house | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient way=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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