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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 103

So Nanda questioned one of the celestial maidens; and she said to him:—‘This festival is to celebrate the good tidings that have been brought to us.

Who acts: Nanda, beauty, festival · What happens: question, say, be, bring · To what, where: one, Nanda, good tidings, us · 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 (Nanda, beauty, festival), 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

advmodnsubjobjcasedetcompoundnmodpunctccnsubjparataxiscaseoblpunctpunctpunctdetnsubjcopmarkconjdetamodobjnsubj:passauxaux:passacl:relclcaseoblpunctrootSoADVNandaPROPNquestionedVERBoneNUMofADPtheDETcelestialNOUNmaidensNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJshePRONsaidVERBtoADPhimPRON:PUNCT—PUNCT‘PUNCTThisDETfestivalNOUNisAUXtoPARTcelebrateVERBtheDETgoodADJtidingsNOUNthatPRONhaveAUXbeenAUXbroughtVERBtoADPusPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_3 questionedadvmod
2NandaNandaPROPNNumber=Sing3 questionednsubj
3questionedquestionVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card3 questionedobj
5ofofADP_8 maidenscase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 maidensdet
7celestialcelestialNOUNNumber=Sing8 maidenscompound
8maidensmaidenNOUNNumber=Plur4 onenmod
9;;PUNCT_12 saidpunct
10andandCCONJ_12 saidcc
11sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 saidnsubj
12saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 questionedparataxis
13totoADP_14 himcase
14himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 saidobl
15::PUNCT_22 celebratepunct
16—-PUNCT_22 celebratepunct
17‘'PUNCT_22 celebratepunct
18ThisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem19 festivaldet
19festivalfestivalNOUNNumber=Sing22 celebratensubj
20isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 celebratecop
21totoPART_22 celebratemark
22celebratecelebrateVERBVerbForm=Inf12 saidconj
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 tidingsdet
24goodgoodADJDegree=Pos25 tidingsamod
25tidingstidingNOUNNumber=Plur22 celebrateobj
26thatthatPRONPronType=Rel29 broughtnsubj:pass
27havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin29 broughtaux
28beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part29 broughtaux:pass
29broughtbringVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass25 tidingsacl:relcl
30totoADP_31 uscase
31uswePRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs29 broughtobl
32..PUNCT_3 questionedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1question speech: otherpastNandaone of the celestial maidensvn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient
2say speech: assertpastbeautyNandavn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3ispresentthis festivalthe good tidings obj; celebrate propertytree rules
4bringpresent · perfect · passivethe good tidingsusvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to we=Destination

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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