In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 108
For a long time he chanted the words, comprehending little of their meaning;—then he tried to obtain some rest.
Who acts: _, words · What happens: chant, comprehend, try, obtain, mean · To what, where: words, little, rest
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 (_, words), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chanted | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 chanted | nsubj |
| 6 | chanted | chant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 words | det |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 chanted | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 comprehending | punct |
| 10 | comprehending | comprehend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 chanted | advcl |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 comprehending | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 meaning | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 meaning | nmod:poss |
| 14 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 little | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 tried | punct |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 tried | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 tried | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 tried | nsubj |
| 19 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 chanted | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 obtain | mark |
| 21 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 tried | xcomp |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 rest | det |
| 23 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 obtain | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 chanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chant | past | _ | the words | time | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||
| 2 | comprehend | gerund | _ not said here | little of words's meaning | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | try | past | _ | then | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | obtain not said to happen | to-infinitive | _ not said here | some rest | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rest=Theme | ||||
| 5 | mean | words = word | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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