In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 35
The worms are kept in large oblong trays, elevated upon light wooden stands about three feet high.
Who acts: light · What happens: keep, elevate, stand · To what, where: worms, large oblong trays, high
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 (light), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 worms | det |
| 2 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | aux:pass |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 trays | case |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trays | amod |
| 7 | oblong | oblong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trays | amod |
| 8 | trays | tray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kept | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 elevated | punct |
| 10 | elevated | elevate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 kept | conj |
| 11 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 14 stands | mark |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stands | nsubj |
| 13 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 light | amod |
| 14 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 elevated | advcl |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 three | advmod |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 feet | nummod |
| 17 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 high | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stands | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present · passive | the worms | large oblong trays | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in tray=Location | ||||
| 2 | elevate | participle | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | stand | present | light | high three feet | vn assuming_position-50 «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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