In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 91
Every year he used to come to Tōkyō,—usually in the latter part of autumn.
Who acts: Tōkyō · What happens: use, come · To what, where: Tōkyō, latter part
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 (Tōkyō), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 used | nsubj |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 used | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Tōkyō | case |
| 8 | Tōkyō | Tōkyō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 part | punct |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 part | punct |
| 11 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 15 part | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 part | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 part | det |
| 14 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 part | amod |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 autumn | case |
| 17 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 part | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | Tōkyō | year | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | Tōkyō not said here | Tōkyō | the latter part of autumn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tōkyō=Initial_Location |
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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