In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 80
[5] The sort of lantern here referred to is no longer made; and its shape can best be understood by a glance at the picture accompanying this story.
Who acts: glance, picture · What happens: refer, make, understand, accompany, sort · To what, where: 5, shape, story, lantern
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 (glance, picture), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 5 | punct |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 referred | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 5 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sort | det |
| 5 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 referred | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lantern | case |
| 7 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sort | nmod |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 referred | advmod |
| 9 | referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 made | mark |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux:pass |
| 12 | no | no | ADV | _ | 13 longer | advmod |
| 13 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 made | advmod |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 referred | advcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 understood | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 understood | cc |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 shape | nmod:poss |
| 18 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 understood | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 understood | aux |
| 20 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 22 understood | advmod |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 understood | aux:pass |
| 22 | understood | understand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 referred | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 glance | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 glance | det |
| 25 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 understood | obl |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 picture | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 picture | det |
| 28 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 glance | nmod |
| 29 | accompanying | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 picture | acl |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 story | det |
| 31 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 accompanying | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 referred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refer | participle · passive | 5 | here | the sort of lantern nsubj:pass | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | present · passive | long property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | |||||
| 3 | understand | can · passive | a glance at the picture | sort's shape | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | accompany | gerund | the picture not said here | this story | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sort | lantern | nom sort «cognition 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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