In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 35
Finally I may observe that, while judging the incense, a player is expected to take not less than three inhalations, or more than five.
Who acts: I, player · What happens: observe, judge, expect, take · To what, where: that, incense, player, three inhalations
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, player), 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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 4 observe | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 observe | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 observe | aux |
| 4 | observe | observe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 observe | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 judging | punct |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 judging | mark |
| 8 | judging | judge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 observe | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 incense | det |
| 10 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 judging | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 expected | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 player | det |
| 13 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 expected | aux:pass |
| 15 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 judging | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 take | mark |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 expected | xcomp |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 less | advmod |
| 19 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 21 three | advmod |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 less | fixed |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 inhalations | nummod |
| 22 | inhalations | inhalation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 take | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 more | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 more | cc |
| 25 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 27 five | advmod |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 more | fixed |
| 27 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 take | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 observe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | may | I | that | finally property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | |||
| 2 | judge | gerund | I not said here | the incense | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent incense=Value | ||||
| 3 | expect | present · passive | a player | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | a player not said here | three inhalations | five obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument inhalation=Theme five=Destination |
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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