In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 14
[1] The _hatamoto_ were samurai forming the special military force of the Shōgun.
Who acts: hatamoto · What happens: form · To what, where: special military force
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 (hatamoto), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 forming | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hatamoto | det |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 hatamoto | punct |
| 6 | hatamoto | hatamoto | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forming | nsubj |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 hatamoto | punct |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 forming | aux |
| 9 | samurai | samurai | ADV | _ | 10 forming | advmod |
| 10 | forming | form | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 force | det |
| 12 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 force | amod |
| 13 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 force | amod |
| 14 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forming | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Shōgun | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Shōgun | det |
| 17 | Shōgun | Shōgun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 force | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 forming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | past · progressive | the hatamoto | the special military force of the Shōgun | 1 discourse; samurai property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location force=Theme |
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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