In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 2
One of the never-failing attractions of the Tōkyō stage is the performance, by the famous Kikugorō and his company, of the _Botan-Dōrō_, or “Peony-Lantern.”
Who acts: One · What happens: not fail, be, attract · To what, where: performance, Tōkyō stage
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 (One), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 performance | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 attractions | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 attractions | det |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 failing | advmod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 never | punct |
| 6 | failing | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 attractions | amod |
| 7 | attractions | attraction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 stage | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stage | det |
| 10 | Tōkyō | Tōkyō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 stage | compound |
| 11 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attractions | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 performance | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 performance | det |
| 14 | performance | performance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Kikugorō | punct |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 Kikugorō | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Kikugorō | det |
| 18 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Kikugorō | amod |
| 19 | Kikugorō | Kikugorō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 performance | appos |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 company | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 company | nmod:poss |
| 22 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Kikugorō | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Lantern | punct |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Lantern | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Lantern | det |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 Botan | punct |
| 27 | Botan | Botan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Lantern | nsubj |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Dōrō | punct |
| 29 | Dōrō | Dōrō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Botan | conj |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 36 Lantern | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Lantern | punct |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 Lantern | cc |
| 33 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 Lantern | punct |
| 34 | Peony | peony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 Lantern | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 Peony | punct |
| 36 | Lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 performance | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 performance | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 performance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fail | gerund | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | One of the failing attractions of the Tōkyō stage | the performance or the Peony Lantern Botan and Dōrō | the famous Kikugorō and his company appos; the Peony Lantern Botan and Dōrō conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | attract | the Tōkyō stage | nom attraction «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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