In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 108
Then there was a great deal of trouble,—chiefly caused by O-Kuni;—and we went away from the villa, and found a very small house in Yanaka-no-Sasaki.
Who acts: great deal, we · What happens: be, cause, go, find, deal · To what, where: small house, Yanaka, trouble
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great deal, we), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 went | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 deal | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 deal | amod |
| 6 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 trouble | case |
| 8 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deal | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 caused | punct |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 caused | punct |
| 11 | chiefly | chiefly | ADV | _ | 12 caused | advmod |
| 12 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 trouble | appos |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Kuni | case |
| 14 | O | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Kuni | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Kuni | punct |
| 16 | Kuni | Kuni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 caused | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 villa | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 villa | det |
| 25 | villa | villa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 away | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 found | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 found | cc |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 went | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 house | det |
| 30 | very | very | ADV | _ | 31 small | advmod |
| 31 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 house | amod |
| 32 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 found | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 Yanaka | case |
| 34 | Yanaka | Yanaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 house | nmod |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 Sasaki | punct |
| 36 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 38 Sasaki | det |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 no | punct |
| 38 | Sasaki | Sasaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Yanaka | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a great deal of trouble | there | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | cause | participle | by O Kuni; chiefly property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | go | past | we | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | we not said here | a small house | Yanaka and no Sasaki | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic | |||
| 5 | deal | trouble | nom deal «act transitive»: of=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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