In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 2
A serving-student courteously invited him to enter, and ushered him into an apartment where several young men were at study.
Who acts: serving student, Shōko, several young men · What happens: invite, enter, usher, be · To what, where: Shōko, apartment, study
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 (serving student, Shōko, several young men), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 student | det |
| 2 | serving | serving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 student | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 serving | punct |
| 4 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 invited | nsubj |
| 5 | courteously | courteously | ADV | _ | 6 invited | advmod |
| 6 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 invited | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 enter | mark |
| 9 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 invited | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ushered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ushered | cc |
| 12 | ushered | usher | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 invited | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ushered | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 apartment | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 apartment | det |
| 16 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ushered | obl |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 study | advmod |
| 18 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 men | amod |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 men | amod |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 study | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 study | cop |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 study | case |
| 23 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 apartment | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past | a serving student | Shōko | courteously property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | enter not said to happen | to-infinitive | Shōko not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | usher | past | a serving student not said here | Shōko | a apartment | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | is | past | several young men | study | 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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