In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 104
With Yusai’s advice and help, Shinzaburō was able before dark to fix the holy texts over all the apertures of his dwelling.
Who acts: Shinzaburō · What happens: be, fix · To what, where: holy texts, apertures
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), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 advice | case |
| 2 | Yusai | Yusai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 advice | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Yusai | case |
| 4 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 able | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 help | cc |
| 6 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 advice | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 advice | punct |
| 8 | Shinzaburō | Shinzaburō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 able | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 able | cop |
| 10 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 dark | case |
| 12 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 able | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 fix | mark |
| 14 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 texts | det |
| 16 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 texts | amod |
| 17 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fix | obj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 apertures | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 apertures | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 apertures | det |
| 21 | apertures | aperture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fix | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 dwelling | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 24 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 apertures | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Shinzaburō | before dark | with Yusai's advice and help; able property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fix | to-infinitive | Shinzaburō not said here | the holy texts | all apertures of Yusai's dwelling | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent text=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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