In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 26
“Well, call them what you like,” returned Niimi;—“the poets call them eyebrows….
Who acts: you, poets · What happens: call, like, return · To what, where: Silkworms, Niimi · 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 (you, poets), 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 call | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 call | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 call | obj |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 call | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 like | nsubj |
| 8 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 11 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | conj |
| 12 | Niimi | Niimi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 call | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 call | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 poets | det |
| 17 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 call | nsubj |
| 18 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | parataxis |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 call | obj |
| 20 | eyebrows | eyebrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 call | xcomp |
| 21 | …. | .. | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Silkworms = silkworm | what obj | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme what=Result | |||
| 2 | like in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | return | past | you not said here | Niimi | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent niimi=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call in a quote | present | the poets | Silkworms = silkworm | eyebrows xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
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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