In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 37
As they approach maturity, the creatures need almost constant attention.
Who acts: trays, creatures · What happens: approach, need · To what, where: maturity, constant attention
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 (trays, creatures), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 approach | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 approach | nsubj |
| 3 | approach | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 need | advcl |
| 4 | maturity | maturity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 approach | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 approach | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 creatures | det |
| 7 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 need | nsubj |
| 8 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 10 constant | advmod |
| 10 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 attention | amod |
| 11 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 need | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 need | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | present | trays = tray | maturity | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maturity=Theme | ||||
| 2 | need | present | the creatures | constant attention | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot attention=Theme |
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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