In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 34
In Niimi’s neighborhood, where there are plenty of mulberrytrees, many families keep silkworms;—the tending and feeding being mostly done by women and children.
Who acts: many families, women · What happens: be, keep, feed, do · To what, where: plenty, neighborhood, silkworms
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 (many families, women), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 neighborhood | case |
| 2 | Niimi | Niimi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 neighborhood | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Niimi | case |
| 4 | neighborhood | neighborhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plenty | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 neighborhood | punct |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 are | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 are | expl |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 plenty | cop |
| 9 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 mulberrytrees | case |
| 11 | mulberrytrees | mulberrytree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 plenty | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 keep | punct |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 families | amod |
| 14 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 keep | nsubj |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 plenty | conj |
| 16 | silkworms | silkworm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 keep | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 plenty | punct |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 tending | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tending | det |
| 20 | tending | tending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plenty | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 feeding | cc |
| 22 | feeding | feed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 tending | conj |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 done | aux:pass |
| 24 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 25 done | advmod |
| 25 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 feeding | xcomp |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 women | case |
| 27 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 done | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 children | cc |
| 29 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 women | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 plenty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | plenty and the tending | Niimi's neighborhood | of mulberrytrees; the tending conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | keep | present | many families | silkworms | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silkworm=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feed | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | do | gerund · passive | women and children | mostly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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