In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 75
One, who was carrying a beautiful lantern decorated with peony-flowers,[5] appeared to be a servant;—the other was a slender girl of about seventeen, wearing a long-sleeved robe embroidered with designs of autumn-blossoms.
Who acts: One, beautiful lantern · What happens: carry, decorate, appear, be, wear, sleeve · To what, where: beautiful lantern, servant, other slender girl, sleeved robe, autumn blossoms
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 (One, beautiful lantern), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 carrying | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 carrying | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 carrying | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 carrying | aux |
| 5 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lantern | det |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lantern | amod |
| 8 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 appeared | nsubj |
| 9 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lantern | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 flowers | case |
| 11 | peony | peony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flowers | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 peony | punct |
| 13 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 decorated | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 5 | punct |
| 15 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 16 5 | punct |
| 16 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 flowers | appos |
| 17 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 16 5 | punct |
| 18 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 carrying | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 servant | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 servant | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 servant | det |
| 22 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 appeared | xcomp |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 carrying | punct |
| 24 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 other | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 other | det |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 girl | amod |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 girl | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 girl | det |
| 29 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 girl | amod |
| 30 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carrying | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 seventeen | case |
| 32 | about | about | ADV | _ | 33 seventeen | advmod |
| 33 | seventeen | seventeen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 girl | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 wearing | punct |
| 35 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 carrying | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 robe | det |
| 37 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 sleeved | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 long | punct |
| 39 | sleeved | sleeve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 robe | amod |
| 40 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 wearing | obj |
| 41 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 robe | acl |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 designs | case |
| 43 | designs | design | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 embroidered | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 blossoms | case |
| 45 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 blossoms | compound |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 autumn | punct |
| 47 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 designs | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carrying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · progressive | One | who nsubj | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | decorate | participle | a beautiful lantern not said here | with peony flowers | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme | ||||
| 3 | appear | past | a beautiful lantern | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | a beautiful lantern not said here | a servant | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | a other slender girl | of seventeen | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | wear | gerund | One not said here | a sleeved robe | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent robe=Theme | ||||
| 7 | sleeve | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | embroider | participle | a sleeved robe not said here | with designs of autumn blossoms | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with design=Theme | ||||
| 9 | design | autumn blossoms | nom design «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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