In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 11
The book suggested to him that on the south side of his dwelling, at a particular spot near one corner of the hut, great luck awaited him.
Who acts: book, great luck · What happens: suggest, await · To what, where: man, south side
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 (book, great luck), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 book | det |
| 2 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suggested | nsubj |
| 3 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 suggested | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 him | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 side | det |
| 9 | south | South | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 side | amod |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suggested | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 dwelling | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 side | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spot | punct |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 spot | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 spot | det |
| 17 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 spot | amod |
| 18 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suggested | obl |
| 19 | near | near | ADP | _ | 21 corner | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 corner | nummod |
| 21 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suggested | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 hut | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hut | det |
| 24 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 awaited | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hut | punct |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 luck | amod |
| 27 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 awaited | nsubj |
| 28 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 corner | acl:relcl |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 awaited | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suggested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | past | the book | man | the south side of man's dwelling | at a particular spot; near one corner | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||
| 2 | await | past | great luck | man | of the hut | 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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