In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 128
The _ninsomi_ uses a kind of magnifying glass (or magnifying-mirror sometimes), called _tengankyō_ or _ninsomégané_.
Who acts: ninsomi, kind · What happens: use, magnify, call · To what, where: kind, glass, mirror, tengankyō · 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 (ninsomi, kind), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ninsomi | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 ninsomi | punct |
| 3 | ninsomi | ninsomi | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 uses | nsubj |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 uses | punct |
| 5 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 kind | det |
| 7 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 uses | obj |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 magnifying | mark |
| 9 | magnifying | magnify | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 kind | acl |
| 10 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 magnifying | obj |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 magnifying | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 magnifying | cc |
| 13 | magnifying | magnify | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 uses | advcl |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 mirror | punct |
| 15 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 magnifying | obj |
| 16 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 magnifying | advmod |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 magnifying | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 called | punct |
| 19 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 uses | parataxis |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 tengankyō | punct |
| 21 | tengankyō | tengankyō | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 called | xcomp |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 tengankyō | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 ninsomégané | cc |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 ninsomégané | punct |
| 25 | ninsomégané | ninsomégané | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tengankyō | conj |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 called | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 uses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | the ninsomi | a kind | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient | ||||
| 2 | magnify | gerund | a kind not said here | glass | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent glass=Patient | ||||
| 3 | magnify | gerund | the ninsomi not said here | mirror | sometimes property | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mirror=Patient | |||
| 4 | call | participle | tengankyō or ninsomégané | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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