In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 133
Now there was a man called Tomozō, who lived in a small cottage adjoining Shinzaburō’s residence, Tomozō and his wife O-Miné were both employed by Shinzaburō as servants.
Who acts: man, small cottage, Shinzaburō · What happens: be, call, live, adjoin, employ · To what, where: man, residence, Tomozō, small cottage · 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 (man, small cottage, Shinzaburō), 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 | Now | now | 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 | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 man | acl |
| 7 | Tomozō | Tomozō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 called | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lived | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 cottage | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cottage | det |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cottage | amod |
| 14 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 employed | obl |
| 15 | adjoining | adjoin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 cottage | acl |
| 16 | Shinzaburō | Shinzaburō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 residence | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Shinzaburō | case |
| 18 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 adjoining | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Tomozō | punct |
| 20 | Tomozō | Tomozō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 employed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wife | cc |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wife | nmod:poss |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Tomozō | conj |
| 24 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 26 Miné | case |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Miné | punct |
| 26 | Miné | Miné | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 wife | nmod |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 employed | aux:pass |
| 28 | both | both | ADV | _ | 29 employed | advmod |
| 29 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 lived | parataxis |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 Shinzaburō | case |
| 31 | Shinzaburō | Shinzaburō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 employed | obl |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 servants | case |
| 33 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 employed | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a man | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | participle | a man not said here | Tomozō xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | live | past | a man | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | adjoin | gerund | a small cottage not said here | Shinzaburō's residence | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme residence=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | employ | past · passive | Shinzaburō | Tomozō and Tomozō's wife of Miné | a small cottage | as servants; both property | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Theme as servant=Attribute |
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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