In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 1
“Having been guided to the house, Shōko Setsu presented himself at the entrance, and asked for permission to speak to the old man.
Who acts: Shōko · What happens: guide, present, ask, speak · To what, where: house, Shōko, entrance · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shōko), 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 | _ | 4 guided | punct |
| 2 | Having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 guided | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 guided | aux:pass |
| 4 | guided | guide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guided | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 presented | punct |
| 9 | Shōko | Shōko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 presented | nsubj |
| 10 | Setsu | Setsu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Shōko | flat |
| 11 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 guided | conj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 presented | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 entrance | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 entrance | det |
| 15 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 presented | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 asked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 asked | cc |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 presented | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 permission | case |
| 20 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 asked | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 speak | mark |
| 22 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 permission | acl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 man | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 man | det |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 man | amod |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 speak | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 guided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guide in a quote | gerund · perfect · passive | the house | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to house=Destination | |||||
| 2 | present in a quote | past | Shōko | Shōko | the entrance | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | Shōko not said here | for permission | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | Shōko not said here | to the old man | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to man=Co-Agent |
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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