In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 9
To the Japanese original of the foregoing record were appended the names of the players, the date of the entertainment, and the name of the place where the party was held.
What happens: forego, append, hold, name · To what, where: names, party, players, place
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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 original | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 original | det |
| 3 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 original | amod |
| 4 | original | original | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 appended | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 record | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 record | det |
| 7 | foregoing | forego | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 record | amod |
| 8 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 original | nmod |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 appended | aux:pass |
| 10 | appended | append | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 names | det |
| 12 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 appended | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 players | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 players | det |
| 15 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 names | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 date | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 date | det |
| 18 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 players | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 entertainment | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 entertainment | det |
| 21 | entertainment | entertainment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 date | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 name | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 name | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 name | det |
| 25 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 appended | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 place | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 place | det |
| 28 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 name | nmod |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 33 held | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 party | det |
| 31 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 held | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 held | aux:pass |
| 33 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 place | acl:relcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 appended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forego | gerund | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | append | past · passive | the names of the players and the date of the entertainment | to the Japanese original of the foregoing record; the name of the place parataxis | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hold | past · passive | the party | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | name | the players and the date of the entertainment | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | name | the place | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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