In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 17
O-Tsuyu lived happily enough in her new home until one day when the family physician, Yamamoto Shijō, paid her a visit in company with a young samurai named Hagiwara Shinzaburō, who resided in the Nedzu quarter.
Who acts: Tsuyu, family physician, Hagiwara · What happens: live, pay, name, reside · To what, where: new home, Tsuyu, young samurai, Nedzu quarter
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 (Tsuyu, family physician, Hagiwara), 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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 Tsuyu | discourse |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tsuyu | punct |
| 3 | Tsuyu | Tsuyu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 4 lived | advmod |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 lived | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 home | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 home | nmod:poss |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 home | amod |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 11 | until | until | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 day | nummod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 paid | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 physician | det |
| 16 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 physician | compound |
| 17 | physician | physician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 paid | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Yamamoto | punct |
| 19 | Yamamoto | Yamamoto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 physician | appos |
| 20 | Shijō | Shijō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Yamamoto | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 physician | punct |
| 22 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lived | advcl |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 paid | obj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 visit | det |
| 25 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 paid | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 company | case |
| 27 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 visit | nmod |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 samurai | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 samurai | det |
| 30 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 samurai | amod |
| 31 | samurai | samurai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 paid | obl |
| 32 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 samurai | acl |
| 33 | Hagiwara | Hagiwara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 named | xcomp |
| 34 | Shinzaburō | Shinzaburō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Hagiwara | flat |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 resided | punct |
| 36 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 resided | nsubj |
| 37 | resided | reside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 Hagiwara | acl:relcl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 quarter | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 quarter | det |
| 40 | Nedzu | Nedzu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 quarter | compound |
| 41 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 resided | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Tsuyu | Tsuyu's new home | day | enough, happily property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in home=Location | ||
| 2 | pay | past | the family physician | Tsuyu | with a young samurai; a visit obj | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient visit=Asset | |||
| 3 | name | participle | a young samurai not said here | Hagiwara xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | reside | past | Hagiwara | the Nedzu quarter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in quarter=Location |
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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