In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 41
They have beautiful wings, but cannot use them.
Who acts: trays · What happens: have, not use · To what, where: beautiful wings, trays
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wings | amod |
| 4 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 use | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 use | cc |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 use | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 use | advmod |
| 9 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 use | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | trays = tray | beautiful wings | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not use | can | trays = tray not said here | trays = tray | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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