In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 56
One day he ordered some Spirit-Recalling-Incense to be procured, that he might summon her from the dead.
Who acts: book · What happens: order, procure, summon · To what, where: Recalling Incense, reason, dead
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 (book), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ordered | nsubj |
| 4 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 Incense | det |
| 6 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Recalling | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Spirit | punct |
| 8 | Recalling | recalling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Incense | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Recalling | punct |
| 10 | Incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 procured | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 procured | aux:pass |
| 13 | procured | procure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Incense | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 summon | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 summon | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 summon | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 summon | aux |
| 18 | summon | summon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ordered | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 summon | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 dead | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dead | det |
| 22 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 summon | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | book | some Recalling Incense | day | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incense=Theme | |||
| 2 | procure | to-infinitive · passive | book not said here | some Recalling Incense not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 3 | summon | might | book | reason | the dead | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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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