In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 102
‘Ask some of those people,’ responded Shaka.
What happens: ask, respond · To what, where: some, Shaka · 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: 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 | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 2 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 responded | ccomp |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 Ask | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 5 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 people | det |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 some | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 9 | responded | respond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Shaka | Shaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 responded | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 responded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | some of that people | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent some=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | respond speech: other | past | Shaka | 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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