In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 93
But during these fugitive trips he never failed to visit me; bringing welcome news of Izumo people and places,—bringing also some queer little present, generally of a religious kind, from some famous place of pilgrimage.
Who acts: fugitive, some · What happens: trip, not fail, visit, bring, present · To what, where: me, welcome news, famous 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: who acts (fugitive, some), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 trips | cc |
| 2 | during | during | ADP | _ | 5 trips | mark |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 fugitive | det |
| 4 | fugitive | fugitive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trips | nsubj |
| 5 | trips | trip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 failed | nsubj |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 failed | advmod |
| 8 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 trips | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 visit | mark |
| 10 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 failed | xcomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 visit | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 trips | punct |
| 13 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 trips | advcl |
| 14 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 news | amod |
| 15 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bringing | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 people | case |
| 17 | Izumo | Izumo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 people | compound |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 news | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 places | cc |
| 20 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 people | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 trips | punct |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 bringing | punct |
| 23 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 trips | conj |
| 24 | also | also | ADV | _ | 28 present | advmod |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 present | nsubj |
| 26 | queer | queer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 present | amod |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 present | amod |
| 28 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bringing | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 kind | punct |
| 30 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 34 kind | advmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 kind | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 kind | det |
| 33 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 kind | amod |
| 34 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bringing | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 place | punct |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 place | case |
| 37 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 place | det |
| 38 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 place | amod |
| 39 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bringing | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 pilgrimage | case |
| 41 | pilgrimage | pilgrimage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 place | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 trips | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trip | present | this fugitive | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not fail | past | fugitive | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | visit | to-infinitive | fugitive not said here | me | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | bring | gerund | this fugitive not said here | welcome news of Izumo people and places | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent news=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bring | gerund | this fugitive not said here | some famous place of pilgrimage | a religious kind conj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from place=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | present | some | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/3/93/