In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 62
But as soon as he found himself again able to think clearly, he inscribed the dead girl’s name upon a mortuary tablet, and placed the tablet in the Buddhist shrine of his house, and set offerings before it, and recited prayers.
Who acts: Shinzaburō, dead girl · What happens: find, think, inscribe, place, recite, name · To what, where: Shinzaburō, name, mortuary tablet, tablet, Buddhist shrine, prayers
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, dead girl), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 found | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 found | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 found | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 found | obj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 able | advmod |
| 9 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 found | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 think | mark |
| 11 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 able | xcomp |
| 12 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 11 think | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 inscribed | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 inscribed | nsubj |
| 15 | inscribed | inscribe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 girl | det |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 girl | amod |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 name | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 girl | case |
| 20 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 inscribed | obj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 tablet | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tablet | det |
| 23 | mortuary | mortuary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tablet | amod |
| 24 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 inscribed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 placed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 placed | cc |
| 27 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 tablet | det |
| 29 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 placed | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 shrine | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 shrine | det |
| 32 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 shrine | amod |
| 33 | shrine | shrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 placed | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 house | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 house | nmod:poss |
| 36 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 shrine | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 offerings | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 offerings | cc |
| 39 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 offerings | amod |
| 40 | offerings | offering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 placed | obl |
| 41 | before | before | ADP | _ | 42 it | case |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 offerings | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 recited | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 recited | cc |
| 45 | recited | recite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | conj |
| 46 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 recited | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Shinzaburō | Shinzaburō | able, soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | Shinzaburō not said here | clearly property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | inscribe | past | Shinzaburō | the dead girl's name | a mortuary tablet | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Theme upon tablet=Destination | |||
| 4 | place | past | Shinzaburō not said here | the tablet | the Buddhist shrine of Shinzaburō's house | set offerings before house obl | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tablet=Theme in shrine=Destination | ||
| 5 | recite | past | Shinzaburō not said here | prayers | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme | ||||
| 6 | name | the dead girl | nom name «communication 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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