In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 116
And he showed them O-Tsuyu’s tablet in its place upon the Shelf of Souls.
Who acts: deal · What happens: show · To what, where: O
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 (deal), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 showed | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 showed | nsubj |
| 3 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 showed | obj |
| 5 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 9 tablet | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 O | punct |
| 7 | Tsuyu | Tsuyu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 tablet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Tsuyu | case |
| 9 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 showed | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 place | nmod:poss |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 showed | obl |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 Shelf | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Shelf | det |
| 15 | Shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 place | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Souls | case |
| 17 | Souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Shelf | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | deal | O | of Tsuyu's tablet; in tablet's place upon the Shelf of Souls | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Patient in place=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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