In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 105
Then the _ninsomi_ returned to his own house,—leaving the youth alone.
Who acts: _ · What happens: return, leave · To what, where: youth
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 (_), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 returned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 _ | det |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 ninsomi | punct |
| 4 | ninsomi | ninsomi | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 _ | nmod |
| 5 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 house | amod |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leaving | punct |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 leaving | punct |
| 13 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 returned | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 youth | det |
| 15 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leaving | obj |
| 16 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 13 leaving | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the _ ninsomi | then | to _'s own house result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | |||
| 2 | leave | gerund | the _ ninsomi not said here | the youth | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=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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