In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 92
Then, for several weeks, he would flit about the city, from district to district, and vanish again.
Who acts: Tōkyō · What happens: flit, vanish · To what, where: district
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 flit | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 weeks | case |
| 4 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 weeks | amod |
| 5 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flit | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 weeks | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 flit | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 flit | aux |
| 9 | flit | flit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 city | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 city | det |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flit | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 district | punct |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 district | case |
| 15 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flit | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 district | case |
| 17 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 district | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 vanish | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 vanish | cc |
| 20 | vanish | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 flit | conj |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 vanish | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 flit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flit | would | Tōkyō | district to district | then; week | about the city | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about city=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | vanish | present | Tōkyō not said here | again | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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