In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 81
The system itself he held to be infallible in the hands of a master.
Who acts: system · What happens: hold, be · To what, where: hands
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 (system), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 system | det |
| 2 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | nsubj |
| 3 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 2 system | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 held | nsubj |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 infallible | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 infallible | cop |
| 8 | infallible | infallible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 held | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hands | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hands | det |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 infallible | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 master | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 master | det |
| 14 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hands | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the system system | teller nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | the system system not said here | the hands of a master | infallible property | tree rules |
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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