In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 3
This weird play, of which the scenes are laid in the middle of the last century, is the dramatization of a romance by the novelist Encho, written in colloquial Japanese, and purely Japanese in local color, though inspired by a Chinese tale.
Who acts: This, weird play, novelist · What happens: play, lay, be, write, inspire, romance · To what, where: scenes, middle, dramatization, colloquial Japanese
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 (This, weird play, novelist), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 play | nsubj |
| 2 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 play | amod |
| 3 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dramatization | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 laid | punct |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 laid | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 scenes | det |
| 8 | scenes | scene | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 laid | aux:pass |
| 10 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 play | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 middle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 middle | det |
| 13 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laid | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 century | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 century | det |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 century | amod |
| 17 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 middle | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 play | punct |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 dramatization | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dramatization | det |
| 21 | dramatization | dramatization | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 romance | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 romance | det |
| 24 | romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dramatization | nmod |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 novelist | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 novelist | det |
| 27 | novelist | novelist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 romance | nmod |
| 28 | Encho | Encho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 novelist | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 written | punct |
| 30 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 dramatization | acl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 Japanese | case |
| 32 | colloquial | colloquial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Japanese | amod |
| 33 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 written | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Japanese | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 Japanese | cc |
| 36 | purely | purely | ADV | _ | 37 Japanese | advmod |
| 37 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dramatization | parataxis |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 color | case |
| 39 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 color | amod |
| 40 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Japanese | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 inspired | punct |
| 42 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 43 inspired | mark |
| 43 | inspired | inspire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 Japanese | parataxis |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 47 tale | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 tale | det |
| 46 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 tale | amod |
| 47 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 inspired | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 dramatization | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | This | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | lay | present · passive | the scenes | the middle of the last century | of weird play | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in middle=Destination | |||
| 3 | is a | present | weird play | the dramatization | of a romance by the novelist | tree rules | |||
| 4 | write | participle | the dramatization not said here | colloquial Japanese | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in japanese=Destination | ||||
| 5 | inspire | participle | by a Chinese tale | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | romance | the novelist | nom romance «state intransitive»: by=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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