In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 53
In many old Japanese and Chinese books mention is made of a famous story about this incense,—a story of the Chinese Emperor Wu, of the Han dynasty.
What happens: make · To what, where: Chinese books
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Japanese | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Japanese | nsubj |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Japanese | amod |
| 4 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 6 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 books | amod |
| 7 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 made | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | mention | mention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | aux:pass |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 Japanese | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 story | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 13 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 story | amod |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 incense | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 incense | det |
| 17 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 story | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Japanese | punct |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 story | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 story | det |
| 21 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Japanese | parataxis |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Emperor | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Emperor | det |
| 24 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Emperor | amod |
| 25 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 story | nmod |
| 26 | Wu | Wu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Emperor | flat |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 dynasty | punct |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 dynasty | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 dynasty | det |
| 30 | Han | Han | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 dynasty | compound |
| 31 | dynasty | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 story | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Japanese | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | Chinese books | of a famous story about this incense; mention nsubj:pass | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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