In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 64
Nothing occurred to change the monotony of his solitude before the time of the Bon,—the great Festival of the Dead,—which begins upon the thirteenth day of the seventh month.
Who acts: Nothing · What happens: occur, change, begin · To what, where: monotony
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 (Nothing), 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 occurred | nsubj |
| 2 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 change | mark |
| 4 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 occurred | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 monotony | det |
| 6 | monotony | monotony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 change | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 solitude | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 solitude | nmod:poss |
| 9 | solitude | solitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 monotony | nmod |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 change | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Bon | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Bon | det |
| 15 | Bon | Bon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 time | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Festival | punct |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Festival | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Festival | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Festival | amod |
| 20 | Festival | Festival | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Bon | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Dead | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Dead | det |
| 23 | Dead | Dead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Festival | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 begins | punct |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 begins | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 begins | nsubj |
| 27 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 occurred | parataxis |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 31 day | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 day | det |
| 30 | thirteenth | thirteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 day | amod |
| 31 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 begins | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 month | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 month | det |
| 34 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 month | amod |
| 35 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 day | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | past | Nothing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | change | to-infinitive | Nothing not said here | the monotony of Shinzaburō's solitude | time | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monotony=Patient | |||
| 3 | begin | present | day | which nsubj | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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