In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 9
Here and there we found it necessary to condense the original narrative; and we tried to keep close to the text only in the conversational passages,—some of which happen to possess a particular quality of psychological interest.
Who acts: we, some · What happens: find, condense, try, keep, happen, possess · To what, where: summary, original narrative, conversational passages, particular quality · 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 (we, some), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 found | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 there | cc |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Here | conj |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | obj |
| 7 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 found | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 condense | mark |
| 9 | condense | condense | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 necessary | csubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 narrative | det |
| 11 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 narrative | amod |
| 12 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 condense | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 tried | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tried | cc |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 tried | nsubj |
| 16 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 keep | mark |
| 18 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 tried | xcomp |
| 19 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 keep | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 text | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 text | det |
| 22 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 close | obl |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 passages | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 passages | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 passages | det |
| 26 | conversational | conversational | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 passages | amod |
| 27 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 keep | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tried | punct |
| 29 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 happen | punct |
| 30 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 happen | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 which | case |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 some | nmod |
| 33 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 possess | mark |
| 35 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 happen | xcomp |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 quality | det |
| 37 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 quality | amod |
| 38 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 possess | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 interest | case |
| 40 | psychological | psychological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 interest | amod |
| 41 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 quality | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | we | summary | here; there | necessary property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||
| 2 | condense | to-infinitive | the original narrative | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent narrative=Patient | |||||
| 3 | try | past | we | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | the conversational passages | close property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in passage=Location | |||
| 5 | happen | present | some | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | possess | to-infinitive | some not said here | a particular quality of psychological interest | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot quality=Theme |
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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