In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 98
‘Oh, Master!’ exclaimed Nanda, ‘how can a lovely woman be compared with an ugly ape?’
What happens: exclaim, compare · To what, where: Nanda, lovely woman
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: 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 exclaimed | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 exclaimed | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | vocative |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Nanda | Nanda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 exclaimed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 compared | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 compared | punct |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 compared | advmod |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 compared | aux |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 14 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woman | amod |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 compared | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 compared | aux:pass |
| 17 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 exclaimed | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 ape | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 ape | det |
| 20 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ape | amod |
| 21 | ape | ape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 compared | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 compared | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | Nanda | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nanda=Topic | |||||
| 2 | compare | can · passive | a lovely woman | with a ugly ape | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with ape=Co-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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