In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 59
Presently, within the thick blue smoke arising from the incense, the outline, of a feminine form became visible.
Who acts: thick blue smoke · What happens: arise, become · To what, where: incense
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 (thick blue smoke), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 20 became | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Presently | punct |
| 3 | within | within | ADP | _ | 7 smoke | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 smoke | det |
| 5 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 smoke | amod |
| 6 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 smoke | amod |
| 7 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 became | nsubj |
| 8 | arising | arise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 smoke | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 incense | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 incense | det |
| 11 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arising | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 outline | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 outline | det |
| 14 | outline | outline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 incense | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 form | punct |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 form | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 form | det |
| 18 | feminine | feminine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 form | amod |
| 19 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arising | obl |
| 20 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 became | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | gerund | the thick blue smoke not said here | the incense and the outline | of a feminine form | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | become | past | the thick blue smoke | presently, visible property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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