In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 45
It was the evolutional lesson of this latter fact that chiefly occupied me while Niimi and his younger brother (who feeds the worms) were kindly explaining the methods of the industry.
Who acts: race, latter fact, younger brother, Niimi · What happens: be, occupy, feed, explain · To what, where: evolutional lesson, me, worms, methods
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 (race, latter fact, younger brother, Niimi), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lesson | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lesson | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lesson | det |
| 4 | evolutional | evolutional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lesson | amod |
| 5 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fact | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 fact | nsubj |
| 8 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fact | amod |
| 9 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lesson | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 occupied | mark |
| 11 | chiefly | chiefly | ADV | _ | 12 occupied | advmod |
| 12 | occupied | occupy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fact | acl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 occupied | obj |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 28 explaining | mark |
| 15 | Niimi | Niimi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 explaining | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 brother | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 brother | amod |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Niimi | conj |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 feeds | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 feeds | nsubj |
| 22 | feeds | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 brother | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 worms | det |
| 24 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 feeds | obj |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 feeds | punct |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 explaining | aux |
| 27 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 28 explaining | advmod |
| 28 | explaining | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 occupied | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 methods | det |
| 30 | methods | method | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 explaining | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 industry | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 industry | det |
| 33 | industry | industry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 methods | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lesson | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | race | the evolutional lesson | of latter fact this | tree rules | |||
| 2 | occupy | past | latter fact this not said here | me | chiefly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | feed | present | Niimi's younger brother | the worms | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | explain speech: assert | past · progressive | Niimi and Niimi's younger brother | the methods of the industry | kindly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent method=Topic |
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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