In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 16
These were the highest class of samurai,—not only as the immediate vassals of the Shōgun, but as a military aristocracy.
Who acts: These · What happens: be · To what, where: highest class
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 (These), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 class | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 class | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 class | det |
| 4 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 class | amod |
| 5 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 samurai | case |
| 7 | samurai | samurai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 class | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 class | punct |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 vassals | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 vassals | advmod |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 vassals | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 vassals | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 vassals | det |
| 14 | immediate | immediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 vassals | amod |
| 15 | vassals | vassal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 class | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Shōgun | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Shōgun | det |
| 18 | Shōgun | Shōgun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 vassals | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 aristocracy | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 aristocracy | cc |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 aristocracy | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 aristocracy | det |
| 23 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 aristocracy | amod |
| 24 | aristocracy | aristocracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 vassals | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 class | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | These | the highest class and the immediate vassals of the Shōgun but a military aristocracy | of samurai; the immediate vassals of the Shōgun but a military aristocracy conj | tree rules |
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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