In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 134
Both seemed to be devoted to their young master; and by his help they were able to live in comparative comfort.
Who acts: Both, bands, Tomozō · What happens: seem, devote, be, live, help · To what, where: young master, comparative comfort
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 (Both, bands, Tomozō), 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 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 devoted | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 devoted | aux:pass |
| 5 | devoted | devote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 master | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 master | nmod:poss |
| 8 | young | young | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 master | compound |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 devoted | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 able | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 able | cc |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 help | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 help | nmod:poss |
| 14 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 able | obl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 able | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 able | cop |
| 17 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 seemed | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 live | mark |
| 19 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 able | xcomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 comfort | case |
| 21 | comparative | comparative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 comfort | amod |
| 22 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 live | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Both | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | devote | to-infinitive · passive | Both not said here | to bands's young master goal | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: to master=Goal | ||||
| 3 | is | past | bands = band | by Tomozō's help; able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | bands = band not said here | comparative comfort | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in comfort=Location | ||||
| 5 | help | Tomozō | nom help «act 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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