In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 81
It was totally unlike the modern domestic band-lantern, painted with the owner’s crest; but it was not altogether unlike some forms of lanterns still manufactured for the Festival of the Dead, and called _Bon-dōrō_.
Who acts: shape, forms · What happens: be, paint, not be, manufacture, call · To what, where: modern domestic band lantern, Bon · 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 (shape, forms), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lantern | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lantern | cop |
| 3 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 10 lantern | advmod |
| 4 | unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 10 lantern | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lantern | det |
| 6 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lantern | amod |
| 7 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lantern | amod |
| 8 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lantern | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 band | punct |
| 10 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 painted | punct |
| 12 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 lantern | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 crest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 owner | det |
| 15 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crest | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 owner | case |
| 17 | crest | crest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 painted | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 manufactured | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 forms | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 forms | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 forms | cop |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 forms | advmod |
| 23 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 26 forms | advmod |
| 24 | unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 26 forms | case |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 forms | det |
| 26 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 manufactured | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 lanterns | case |
| 28 | lanterns | lantern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 forms | nmod |
| 29 | still | still | ADV | _ | 30 manufactured | advmod |
| 30 | manufactured | manufacture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lantern | parataxis |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 Festival | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Festival | det |
| 33 | Festival | Festival | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 manufactured | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Dead | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Dead | det |
| 36 | Dead | Dead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Festival | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 called | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 called | cc |
| 39 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 manufactured | conj |
| 40 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 41 Bon | punct |
| 41 | Bon | Bon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 called | obj |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 dōrō | punct |
| 43 | dōrō | dōrō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Bon | conj |
| 44 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 called | punct |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lantern | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | shape | unlike the modern domestic band lantern; totally property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | paint | participle | the modern domestic band lantern not said here | with the owner's crest | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with crest=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | shape | unlike some forms; of lanterns; altogether property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | manufacture | past | some forms | still | for the Festival of the Dead | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for festival=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | call | past | some forms not said here | Bon and dōrō | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bon=Recipient |
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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