In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 79
The _komageta_, or “pony-geta” is so-called because of the sonorous hoof-like echo which it makes on hard ground.
Who acts: sonorous like echo · What happens: call, make · To what, where: komageta, hard ground · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sonorous like echo), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 komageta | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 komageta | punct |
| 3 | komageta | komageta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 komageta | punct |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 geta | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 geta | cc |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 geta | punct |
| 8 | pony | pony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 geta | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 pony | punct |
| 10 | geta | geta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 komageta | appos |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 geta | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 called | aux:pass |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 called | advmod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 so | punct |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 echo | mark |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 because | fixed |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 echo | det |
| 19 | sonorous | sonorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 echo | amod |
| 20 | hoof | hoof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 like | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 hoof | punct |
| 22 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 echo | amod |
| 23 | echo | echo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 called | xcomp |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 makes | nsubj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 makes | nsubj |
| 26 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 echo | acl:relcl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 ground | case |
| 28 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 ground | amod |
| 29 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 makes | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | the komageta | the sonorous like echo xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | make | present | the sonorous like echo | hard ground | geta nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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