In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 47
This was the wizard-incense referred to in such ancient love-songs as the following:—
Who acts: This · What happens: be, refer, follow · To what, where: wizard incense, such ancient love songs
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 incense | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 incense | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 incense | det |
| 4 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 incense | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 wizard | punct |
| 6 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 incense | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 referred | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 songs | case |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 songs | amod |
| 11 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 songs | amod |
| 12 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 songs | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 love | punct |
| 14 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 referred | obl |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 following | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 following | det |
| 17 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 referred | advcl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 incense | punct |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 incense | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the wizard incense | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | refer | participle | the wizard incense not said here | such ancient love songs | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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