In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 37
A full set of the utensils required for the game can now be had for about $50.00; but the materials are of the poorest kind.
Who acts: materials · What happens: require, have, be · To what, where: utensils, full set
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 (materials), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 set | det |
| 2 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 set | amod |
| 3 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 utensils | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 utensils | det |
| 6 | utensils | utensil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | nmod |
| 7 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 utensils | acl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 game | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 game | det |
| 10 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 required | obl |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 had | aux |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 had | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 had | aux:pass |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 $ | case |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 $ | advmod |
| 17 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 14 had | obl |
| 18 | 50.00 | 50.00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 $ | nummod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 kind | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 kind | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 materials | det |
| 22 | materials | material | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 kind | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 kind | cop |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 kind | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 kind | det |
| 26 | poorest | poor | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 kind | amod |
| 27 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | require | participle | the utensils not said here | for the game | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | can · passive | a full set of the utensils | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: set=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the materials | of the poorest kind | 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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