In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 34
It is forbidden to leave the room during the game, or to open any door or window, or to indulge in needless conversation.
What happens: forbid, leave, open, indulge · To what, where: guest, room, door, needless conversation
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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 forbidden | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 forbidden | aux:pass |
| 3 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 leave | mark |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 forbidden | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leave | obj |
| 8 | during | during | ADP | _ | 10 game | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 game | det |
| 10 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leave | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 open | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 open | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 open | mark |
| 14 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 forbidden | parataxis |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 open | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 window | cc |
| 18 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 door | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 indulge | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 indulge | cc |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 indulge | mark |
| 22 | indulge | indulge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 open | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 conversation | case |
| 24 | needless | needless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 conversation | amod |
| 25 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 indulge | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forbidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid | present · passive | guest | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | the room | during the game | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | ||||
| 3 | open | to-infinitive | any door or window | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||||
| 4 | indulge | to-infinitive | needless conversation | tree rules |
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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