In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 18
Shinzaburō was an unusually handsome lad, and very gentle; and the two young people fell in love with each other at sight.
Who acts: Shinzaburō, two young people · What happens: be, fall · To what, where: handsome lad, love
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 (Shinzaburō, two young people), 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 | Shinzaburō | Shinzaburō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lad | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lad | det |
| 4 | unusually | unusually | ADV | _ | 5 handsome | advmod |
| 5 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lad | amod |
| 6 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gentle | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gentle | cc |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 gentle | advmod |
| 10 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lad | amod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fell | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 people | nummod |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 people | amod |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lad | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 love | case |
| 19 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 each | case |
| 21 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 17 fell | obl |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 each | fixed |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 sight | case |
| 24 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Shinzaburō | a handsome lad | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | the two young people | love | with each; at sight | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=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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