In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 99
“The story is about the famous Chinese fortune-teller whom we call in Japan Shōko Setsu, and it is written in the book _Baikwa-Shin-Eki_, which is a book of divination.
Who acts: story, we, book · What happens: be, call, write · To what, where: famous Chinese fortune teller, story, book · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (story, we, book), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 teller | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 teller | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 teller | cop |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 teller | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 teller | det |
| 7 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 teller | amod |
| 8 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 teller | amod |
| 9 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 teller | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 fortune | punct |
| 11 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 call | obj |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 call | nsubj |
| 14 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 teller | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Shōko | case |
| 16 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Shōko | compound |
| 17 | Shōko | Shōko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 call | xcomp |
| 18 | Setsu | Setsu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Shōko | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 written | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 written | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 written | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 written | aux:pass |
| 23 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 call | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 book | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 book | det |
| 26 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 written | obl |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 Baikwa | punct |
| 28 | Baikwa | Baikwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 book | appos |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Shin | punct |
| 30 | Shin | Shin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Baikwa | conj |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 Eki | punct |
| 32 | Eki | Eki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Baikwa | conj |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 Baikwa | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 book | punct |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 book | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 book | cop |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 book | det |
| 38 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 book | conj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 divination | case |
| 40 | divination | divination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 book | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 teller | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the story | about the famous Chinese fortune teller | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call in a quote | present | we | the famous Chinese fortune teller | Japan Shōko xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient | |||
| 3 | write in a quote | present · passive | story | the book and a book | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in book=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | the book and a book | a book | of divination | 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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