In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 56
The whole of the scene is characteristically Japanese.
What happens: be
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: 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 | 2 whole | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Japanese | amod |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 scene | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 scene | det |
| 5 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whole | obl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Japanese | cop |
| 7 | characteristically | characteristically | ADV | _ | 8 Japanese | advmod |
| 8 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Japanese | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | characteristically, japanese property | tree rules |
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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