In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 144
[8] The color and form of the dress, and the style of wearing the hair, are by Japanese custom regulated according to the age of the woman.
Who acts: style, Japanese custom · What happens: wear, be, regulate, accord · To what, where: hair, 8
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 (style, Japanese custom), 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 8 | punct |
| 2 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 regulated | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 8 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 color | det |
| 5 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 8 | appos |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 form | cc |
| 7 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 color | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 dress | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dress | det |
| 10 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 color | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 style | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 style | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 style | det |
| 14 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 8 | conj |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 wearing | mark |
| 16 | wearing | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 style | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hair | det |
| 18 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wearing | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 8 | punct |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 custom | cop |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 custom | case |
| 22 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 custom | amod |
| 23 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 regulated | nsubj |
| 24 | regulated | regulate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 age | case |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 according | fixed |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 age | det |
| 28 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 regulated | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 woman | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 woman | det |
| 31 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 age | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 regulated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | gerund | the style not said here | the hair | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hair=Source | ||||
| 2 | is | present | by Japanese custom | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | regulate | past | Japanese custom | 8 and the style | accord the age of the woman | tree rules | |||
| 4 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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