In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 21
8 1/3 “ (1 1/40 oz.) Byakudan (sandal-wood) 4 “ (1/2 oz.) Kanshō (spikenard) 2 _bu_ (1/4 oz.) Kwakkō (Bishop’s-wort?)
To what, where: 8 1/3
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 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 1/3 | compound |
| 2 | 1/3 | 1/3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 1/40 | punct |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 1/40 | punct |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 1/40 | compound |
| 6 | 1/40 | 1/40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 1/3 | nmod |
| 7 | oz. | oz. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 1/40 | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 1/40 | punct |
| 9 | Byakudan | Byakudan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 1/40 | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 wood | punct |
| 11 | sandal | sandal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wood | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 sandal | punct |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 1/40 | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 wood | punct |
| 15 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 Kanshō | nsubj |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Kanshō | punct |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 oz. | punct |
| 18 | 1/2 | 1/2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 oz. | nummod |
| 19 | oz. | oz. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Kanshō | nmod:desc |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 oz. | punct |
| 21 | Kanshō | Kanshō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 wood | nmod |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 spikenard | punct |
| 23 | spikenard | spikenard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Kanshō | appos |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 spikenard | punct |
| 25 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 Kanshō | flat |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 bu | punct |
| 27 | bu | Bu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Kanshō | appos |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 bu | punct |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 oz. | punct |
| 30 | 1/4 | 1/4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 oz. | nummod |
| 31 | oz. | oz. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Kanshō | appos |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 oz. | punct |
| 33 | Kwakkō | Kwakkō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Kanshō | flat |
| 34 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 37 wort | punct |
| 35 | Bishop’s | Bishop's | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 wort | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 wort | punct |
| 37 | wort | wort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Kanshō | appos |
| 38 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 37 wort | punct |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 37 wort | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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