In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 40
A few only of the best are suffered to emerge from their silky sleep,—the selected breeders.
Who acts: trays · What happens: suffer, emerge, select, sleep · To what, where: best, selected breeders, silky sleep
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), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 few | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 suffered | advmod |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 suffered | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 best | det |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 suffered | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 suffered | aux:pass |
| 8 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 few | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 emerge | mark |
| 10 | emerge | emerge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 suffered | xcomp |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 sleep | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 13 | silky | silky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sleep | amod |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 emerge | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 breeders | punct |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 breeders | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 breeders | det |
| 18 | selected | select | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 breeders | amod |
| 19 | breeders | breeder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 emerge | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 few | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | present · passive | the best | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | emerge | to-infinitive | the selected breeders | trays's silky sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sleep=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | select | participle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | sleep | trays = tray | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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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