In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 9
“Shōko Setsu was not less delighted than surprised; for the book was a manuscript of the rarest and most precious kind,—containing all the secrets of the science of divination.
Who acts: Shōko · What happens: be, contain · To what, where: manuscript, secrets
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 (Shōko), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 delighted | punct |
| 2 | Shōko | Shōko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | Setsu | Setsu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Shōko | flat |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 delighted | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 less | advmod |
| 6 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 delighted | advmod |
| 7 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 surprised | case |
| 9 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 delighted | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 manuscript | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 book | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 book | det |
| 13 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 manuscript | obl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 manuscript | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 manuscript | det |
| 16 | manuscript | manuscript | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 delighted | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 kind | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kind | det |
| 19 | rarest | rare | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 kind | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 kind | cc |
| 21 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 22 precious | advmod |
| 22 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 kind | amod |
| 23 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 manuscript | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 containing | punct |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 containing | punct |
| 26 | containing | contain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 kind | conj |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 secrets | det:predet |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 secrets | det |
| 29 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 containing | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 science | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 science | det |
| 32 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 secrets | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 divination | case |
| 34 | divination | divination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 science | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | Shōko | than surprised; delighted, less property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | Shōko not said here | a manuscript | for the book; of the rarest precious kind | tree rules | |||
| 3 | contain in a quote | gerund | Shōko not said here | all secrets of the science of divination | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot secret=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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