In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 65
Then he decorated his house, and prepared everything for the festival;—hanging out the lanterns that guide the returning spirits, and setting the food of ghosts on the _shōryōdana_, or Shelf of Souls.
Who acts: Shinzaburō, lanterns · What happens: decorate, hang out, guide, return, set · To what, where: house, lanterns, returning spirits, food, shōryōdana
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, lanterns), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 decorated | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 decorated | nsubj |
| 3 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 house | nmod:poss |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 decorated | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 everything | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 everything | cc |
| 8 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 everything | amod |
| 9 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 decorated | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 festival | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 festival | det |
| 12 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 everything | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 decorated | punct |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 hanging | punct |
| 15 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 decorated | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 hanging | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lanterns | det |
| 18 | lanterns | lantern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hanging | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 guide | nsubj |
| 20 | guide | guide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 lanterns | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 spirits | det |
| 22 | returning | return | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 spirits | amod |
| 23 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 guide | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 setting | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 setting | cc |
| 26 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 hanging | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 food | det |
| 28 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 setting | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 ghosts | case |
| 30 | ghosts | ghost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 food | nmod |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 shōryōdana | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 shōryōdana | det |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 34 shōryōdana | punct |
| 34 | shōryōdana | shōryōdana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 setting | obl |
| 35 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 setting | punct |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Shelf | punct |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 Shelf | cc |
| 38 | Shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hanging | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Souls | case |
| 40 | Souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 Shelf | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decorated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decorate | past | Shinzaburō | Shinzaburō's house | then | everything for the festival conj | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Destination | ||
| 2 | hang out | gerund | Shinzaburō not said here | the lanterns | Shelf of Souls obl | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lantern=Patient | |||
| 3 | guide | present | the lanterns | the returning spirits | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme | ||||
| 4 | return | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | set | gerund | Shinzaburō not said here | the food of ghosts | the shōryōdana | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme on shōryōdana=Destination |
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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