In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 29
And very rarely a little of this priceless material is contributed to an incense-party,—much as in Europe, on very extraordinary occasions, some banquet is glorified by the production of a wine several hundred years old.
Who acts: production · What happens: contribute, glorify, produce · To what, where: little, incense party, extraordinary occasions, banquet, wine
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 (production), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 contributed | cc |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 rarely | advmod |
| 3 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 5 little | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 little | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 contributed | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 material | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 material | det |
| 8 | priceless | priceless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 material | amod |
| 9 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 little | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 contributed | aux:pass |
| 11 | contributed | contribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 party | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 party | det |
| 14 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 party | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 incense | punct |
| 16 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 contributed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 party | punct |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 much | punct |
| 19 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 contributed | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 Europe | case |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Europe | case |
| 22 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 much | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 occasions | punct |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 occasions | case |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 extraordinary | advmod |
| 26 | extraordinary | extraordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 occasions | amod |
| 27 | occasions | occasion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 contributed | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 glorified | punct |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 banquet | det |
| 30 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 glorified | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 glorified | aux:pass |
| 32 | glorified | glorify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 occasions | conj |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 production | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 production | det |
| 35 | production | production | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 glorified | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 wine | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 wine | det |
| 38 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 production | nmod |
| 39 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 hundred | amod |
| 40 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 years | nummod |
| 41 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 old | obl:unmarked |
| 42 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 glorified | xcomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 contributed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contribute | present · passive | a little of this priceless material | a incense party | extraordinary occasions | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: to party=Recipient | |||
| 2 | glorify | present · passive | the production of a wine | some banquet | old property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | produce | a wine | nom production «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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