In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 12
There once lived in the district of Ushigomé, in Yedo, a _hatamoto_[1] called Iijima Heizayémon, whose only daughter, Tsuyu, was beautiful as her name, which signifies “Morning Dew.”
Who acts: name, Tsuyu · What happens: live, call, be, signify, name · To what, where: district, Yedo, Morning Dew · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (name, Tsuyu), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 lived | expl |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 lived | advmod |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 district | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 district | det |
| 6 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Ushigomé | case |
| 8 | Ushigomé | Ushigomé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 district | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Yedo | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Yedo | case |
| 11 | Yedo | Yedo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hatamoto | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hatamoto | det |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 hatamoto | punct |
| 15 | hatamoto | hatamoto | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Yedo | appos |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 Yedo | punct |
| 17 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 18 1 | punct |
| 18 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 called | discourse |
| 19 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 18 1 | punct |
| 20 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Yedo | acl |
| 21 | Iijima | Iijima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 called | xcomp |
| 22 | Heizayémon | Heizayémon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Iijima | flat |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 daughter | punct |
| 24 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 26 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 daughter | advmod |
| 26 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Iijima | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Tsuyu | punct |
| 28 | Tsuyu | Tsuyu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Iijima | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 beautiful | punct |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 beautiful | cop |
| 31 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lived | conj |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 name | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 name | nmod:poss |
| 34 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 beautiful | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 signifies | punct |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 signifies | nsubj |
| 37 | signifies | signify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 name | acl:relcl |
| 38 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 Dew | punct |
| 39 | Morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Dew | compound |
| 40 | Dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 signifies | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the district of Ushigomé; there | in Yedo; once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in district=Location | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | Yedo not said here | 1 discourse; Iijima and Iijima and Iijima's daughter and Tsuyu's daughter and Tsuyu xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | as Tsuyu's name; beautiful property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | signify | present | Tsuyu's name | Morning Dew | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dew=Theme | ||||
| 5 | name | Tsuyu | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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