In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 52
Then, in the smoke of the incense, the remembered face and form would appear.
Who acts: remembered face, incense · What happens: remember, appear, smoke · To what, where: smoke
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 (remembered face, incense), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 appear | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 smoke | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 smoke | det |
| 5 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 appear | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 incense | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 incense | det |
| 8 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 smoke | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 smoke | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 face | det |
| 11 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 face | amod |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 appear | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 form | cc |
| 14 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 face | conj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 appear | aux |
| 16 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | participle | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | appear | would | the remembered face and form | the smoke of the incense | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in smoke=Location | |||
| 3 | smoke | the incense | nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
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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