In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 45
Allusions to its employment in various weird rites may be found in some of the old dramas and romances.
Who acts: fragrance · What happens: find, employ · To what, where: Allusions, some, various weird rites
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 (fragrance), 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 | Allusions | allusion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 found | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 employment | case |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 employment | nmod:poss |
| 4 | employment | employment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Allusions | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 rites | case |
| 6 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rites | amod |
| 7 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rites | amod |
| 8 | rites | rite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 employment | nmod |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 found | aux:pass |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 some | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 found | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 dramas | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dramas | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dramas | amod |
| 17 | dramas | drama | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 some | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 romances | cc |
| 19 | romances | romance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 dramas | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | may · passive | Allusions to fragrance's employment in various weird rites | some of the old dramas and romances | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | employ | fragrance | various weird rites | nom employment «state transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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