In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 63
Every day thereafter he presented offerings, and repeated the _Nembutsu;_ and the memory of O-Tsuyu was never absent from his thought.
Who acts: Shinzaburō, O · What happens: present, repeat, not be, think · To what, where: offerings, Nembutsu, memory, thought
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, O), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 presented | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | thereafter | thereafter | ADV | _ | 5 presented | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 presented | nsubj |
| 5 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | offerings | offering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 presented | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 repeated | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 repeated | cc |
| 9 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 presented | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Nembutsu | det |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 Nembutsu | punct |
| 12 | Nembutsu | Nembutsu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 repeated | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 memory | punct |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 memory | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 memory | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 memory | det |
| 17 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 presented | obl |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 absent | mark |
| 19 | O | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 absent | nsubj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Tsuyu | punct |
| 21 | Tsuyu | Tsuyu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 absent | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 absent | cop |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 absent | advmod |
| 24 | absent | absent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 memory | acl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 thought | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 thought | nmod:poss |
| 27 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 absent | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | past | Shinzaburō | offerings | day | the memory obl; thereafter property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offering=Theme | ||
| 2 | repeat | past | Shinzaburō not said here | the Nembutsu | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nembutsu=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | O | the memory not said here | Shinzaburō's thought | Tsuyu nsubj; absent property | tree rules | ||
| 4 | think | Shinzaburō | nom thought «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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