In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 111
Then Nanda found himself standing before a huge vessel which was filled with molten metal;—and he feared and wondered because this vessel had as yet no occupant.
Who acts: Nanda, vessel · What happens: find, stand, fill, fear, wonder, have · To what, where: Nanda, huge vessel
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, vessel), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 found | advmod |
| 2 | Nanda | Nanda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 found | xcomp |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 vessel | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 vessel | det |
| 8 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 vessel | amod |
| 9 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 standing | obl |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 filled | aux:pass |
| 12 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 vessel | acl:relcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 metal | case |
| 14 | molten | molten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 metal | amod |
| 15 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 filled | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 feared | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 feared | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 feared | nsubj |
| 20 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wondered | cc |
| 22 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 feared | conj |
| 23 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 26 had | mark |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 vessel | det |
| 25 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 had | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 wondered | ccomp |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 occupant | case |
| 28 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 30 occupant | advmod |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 occupant | det |
| 30 | occupant | occupant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 had | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Nanda | Nanda | then | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | gerund | Nanda not said here | a huge vessel | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before vessel=Location | ||||
| 3 | fill | past · passive | a huge vessel | with molten metal | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with metal=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | fear | past | Nanda | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | wonder speech: ask | past | Nanda not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | have | past | this vessel | as no occupant | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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