In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 100
There, within a palace of jewels, Nanda saw a multitude of heavenly maidens celebrating some festival with music and dance; and the beauty of the least among them incomparably exceeded that of the fairest woman of earth.
Who acts: Nanda, heavenly maidens, beauty · What happens: see, celebrate, exceed · To what, where: multitude, festival
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 (Nanda, heavenly maidens, beauty), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 saw | expl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 palace | punct |
| 3 | within | within | ADP | _ | 5 palace | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 palace | det |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 jewels | case |
| 7 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 palace | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 9 | Nanda | Nanda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 multitude | det |
| 12 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 maidens | case |
| 14 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 maidens | amod |
| 15 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 multitude | nmod |
| 16 | celebrating | celebrate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 maidens | acl |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 festival | det |
| 18 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 celebrating | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 music | case |
| 20 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 celebrating | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dance | cc |
| 22 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 music | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 exceeded | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 beauty | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 beauty | det |
| 26 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 exceeded | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 least | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 least | det |
| 29 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 beauty | obl |
| 30 | among | among | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 least | nmod |
| 32 | incomparably | incomparably | ADV | _ | 33 exceeded | advmod |
| 33 | exceeded | exceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | conj |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 woman | mark |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 woman | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 woman | det |
| 37 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 38 woman | amod |
| 38 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 exceeded | advcl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 earth | case |
| 40 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 woman | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Nanda | a multitude of heavenly maidens | there | within a palace of jewels | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer multitude=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | celebrate | gerund | heavenly maidens not said here | some festival | with music and dance | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent festival=Theme | |||
| 3 | exceed | past | the beauty | the fairest woman of earth advcl; incomparably property | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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