In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 39
Some were worth thousands of dollars.
What happens: be · To what, where: worth thousands
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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 thousands | det |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thousands | cop |
| 3 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thousands | amod |
| 4 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 dollars | case |
| 6 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thousands | nmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thousands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | some worth thousands | of dollars | 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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