In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 114
‘Ask the devil,’ answered Shaka.
What happens: ask, answer · To what, where: devil, 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 | 7 answered | ccomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 devil | det |
| 4 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ask | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Shaka | Shaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | the devil | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent devil=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | 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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