In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 102
Shinzaburō humbly thanked the high-priest; and then, taking with him the image, the sutra, and the bundle of sacred texts, he made all haste to reach his home before the hour of sunset.
Who acts: Shinzaburō, image · What happens: thank, take, make, reach · To what, where: high priest, image, haste, home
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shinzaburō, image), 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 | Shinzaburō | Shinzaburō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | humbly | humbly | ADV | _ | 3 thanked | advmod |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 priest | det |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 priest | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 high | punct |
| 7 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 taking | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 taking | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
| 12 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 thanked | advcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 taking | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 image | det |
| 16 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sutra | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sutra | det |
| 19 | sutra | sutra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 image | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bundle | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bundle | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bundle | det |
| 23 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 texts | case |
| 25 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 texts | amod |
| 26 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 bundle | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 made | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 made | nsubj |
| 29 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 haste | det |
| 31 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 made | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 reach | mark |
| 33 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 made | advcl |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 home | nmod:poss |
| 35 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 reach | obj |
| 36 | before | before | ADP | _ | 38 hour | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 hour | det |
| 38 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 reach | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 sunset | case |
| 40 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 hour | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | Shinzaburō | the high priest | humbly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | gerund | Shinzaburō not said here | the image | then | with priest; the bundle of sacred texts conj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent image=Theme | ||
| 3 | make | past | image | all haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product | ||||
| 4 | reach | to-infinitive | image not said here | image's home | hour | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent home=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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