In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 31
But this subject could interest few readers; and I shall only mention some of the rules regarding preparations and precautions.
Who acts: I · What happens: mention, regard · To what, where: some, subject
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 subject | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 subject | det |
| 3 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 readers | aux |
| 5 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 readers | compound |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 readers | amod |
| 7 | readers | reader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 subject | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 mention | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 mention | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 mention | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 mention | aux |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 mention | advmod |
| 13 | mention | mention | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 subject | conj |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 mention | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 rules | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rules | det |
| 17 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 some | nmod |
| 18 | regarding | regard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 preparations | case |
| 19 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 rules | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 precautions | cc |
| 21 | precautions | precaution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 preparations | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 subject | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mention speech: other | shall | I | some of the rules regard preparations and precautions | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent some=Topic | ||||
| 2 | regard | gerund | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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