In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 35
The old man made a number of plausible excuses for his apparent neglect.
Who acts: old man, man · What happens: make, neglect · To what, where: number
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 (old man, man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 number | det |
| 6 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 excuses | case |
| 8 | plausible | plausible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 excuses | amod |
| 9 | excuses | excuse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 number | nmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 neglect | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 neglect | nmod:poss |
| 12 | apparent | apparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 neglect | amod |
| 13 | neglect | neglect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 excuses | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the old man | a number of plausible excuses for man's apparent neglect | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Product | ||||
| 2 | neglect | man | nom neglect «cognition transitive»: poss=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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