In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 78
It was then that he became a fortune-teller,—an itinerant _uranaiya_,—travelling on foot from town to town, and returning to his home rarely more than once a year with the proceeds of his journey.
Who acts: daimyō, burning · What happens: be, travel, return, journey · To what, where: fortune teller, foot
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 (daimyō, burning), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 became | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 became | cop |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 became | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 became | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 became | nsubj |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 teller | det |
| 8 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 teller | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 fortune | punct |
| 10 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 became | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 itinerant | punct |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 itinerant | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 itinerant | det |
| 14 | itinerant | itinerant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 teller | appos |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 uranaiya | punct |
| 16 | uranaiya | uranaiya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 itinerant | conj |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 itinerant | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 travelling | punct |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 travelling | punct |
| 20 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 became | advcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 foot | case |
| 22 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 travelling | obl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 town | case |
| 24 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 travelling | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 town | case |
| 26 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 town | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 returning | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 returning | cc |
| 29 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 travelling | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 home | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 home | nmod:poss |
| 32 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 returning | obl |
| 33 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 34 more | advmod |
| 34 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 29 returning | advmod |
| 35 | than | than | ADP | _ | 34 more | fixed |
| 36 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 29 returning | advmod |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 year | det |
| 38 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 once | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 proceeds | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 proceeds | det |
| 41 | proceeds | proceed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 returning | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 journey | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 journey | nmod:poss |
| 44 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 proceeds | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | daimyō | a fortune teller | then | burning nsubj; become property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | travel | gerund | daimyō not said here | foot | from town to town | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | return | gerund | daimyō not said here | to burning's home result; with the proceeds of burning's journey; once property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result | ||||
| 4 | journey | burning | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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