In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 121
In Japanese drama and romance it is not uncommon to represent a father as disowning his child “for the time of seven lives.”
Who acts: romance · What happens: not be, represent, disown · To what, where: Japanese drama, father, child
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 (romance), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 drama | case |
| 2 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 drama | amod |
| 3 | drama | drama | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 romance | cc |
| 5 | romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drama | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 uncommon | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 uncommon | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 uncommon | advmod |
| 9 | uncommon | uncommon | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 drama | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 represent | mark |
| 11 | represent | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 uncommon | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 father | det |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 represent | obj |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 disowning | mark |
| 15 | disowning | disown | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 represent | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 child | nmod:poss |
| 17 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 disowning | obj |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 time | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 disowning | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 lives | case |
| 23 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 lives | nummod |
| 24 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 time | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 uncommon | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 uncommon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | romance | Japanese drama and romance not said here | uncommon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | represent | to-infinitive | romance not said here | a father | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot father=Theme | ||||
| 3 | disown | gerund | romance not said here | father's child | time | tree rules |
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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