In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 22
“Is it possible,” he exclaimed, “that you never saw a silkworm-moth?
Who acts: eyebrow, Niimi, you · What happens: be, exclaim, not see · To what, where: silkworm moth · 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 (eyebrow, Niimi, you), 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 | _ | 4 possible | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 possible | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 possible | nsubj |
| 4 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 possible | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 possible | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 saw | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 saw | advmod |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 exclaimed | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 moth | det |
| 16 | silkworm | silkworm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 moth | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 silkworm | punct |
| 18 | moth | moth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | eyebrow | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | Niimi | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not see in a quote | past | you | a silkworm moth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer moth=Stimulus |
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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